> >
> > i experience hard crashes with X 4.2.0 NetBSD snapshot with pentium-133
> > and PCI Riva 128.
> >
> > 95% of them is when i use xpdf, another 5% with xpdf in memory and used
> > before. it's always same scenario: mouse pointer freezes, there are lot of
> > disk activity for 5-10 seconds, then full freeze so i have to press reset.
> > nothing is written by syslogd.
>
> Can you try to run 'top' somewhere to watch the used RAM and swap ?
> Maybe something goes mad and eat all resources.
for sure NO!
at least for few seconds before crash. on my 128M machine swap is almost
unused but there is 500M allocated.

i will try to telnet after crash tomorrow through ethernet.