Subject: Re: NetBSD Freezing?
To: Josh Hope <otaku@unixgeek.ml.org>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/21/1997 22:51:13
Josh Hope wrote:
> 
> I've experienced a problem last night that really perplexed me. My 
> machine was running high on an uptime of about 6 days, when it FROZE. 
> Yes, just like the Mac OS would freeze...

[ and it got worse... ] 
 
> Anyways, as to my configuration:
> 
> Performa 600
> 12MB RAM
> Generic SBC #26 kernel
> 
> I don't know if anything else would be necessary. I seriously have done 
> NO changes whatsoever with my system, for the past 6 days, and it ran 
> fine for 6 days straight. One day, it decides to "kapuut"!

Could you get a kernel trace after the next freeze?  In other words, hit
the programmer's switch to drop into the debugger and type 'trace' at the
'db>' prompt.  If this doesn't work, you've got something waiting with
interrupts off for some reason.

Is this machine networked?  If so, can you ping it?

Perhaps with a little more info, we can figure this one out.

Later.

-- 
Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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