> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 	Can you completely elimiate hardware - IIRC NetBSD seems to
> > 	stress the memory system harder than RiscOS alone, leading to
> > 	similar problems to those some see with the PC card.
> 
> Hmm... never had any problems with the PC card...
> 
Neither did I. NetBSD had a problem with one of my SIMMs though.

> 
> Well there are 2 SIMMS in the machine so I guess I could swap them round
> and/or remove one at a time...
> 
Good advice.
> This problem only seems to happen with cvs checkout though... X runs
> fine... kernel compiling works fine...
> 
The problem with potential hardware problems is their unpredictable 
nature. CVS is more IO intensive than X and kernel compilation and on a 
RiscPC that adds up to a fair amount of CPU load as well.

Mike