On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Samuel.Hornus@crans.org
>
> >I have a strange problem with my nearly current NetBSD (1.5V) running on a
> >G4 powermacintosh. The daily cronjob starts at 3h15 am and a few minutes
> >after, while in a 'find' command I think, the machine completely freezes
> >(if on console : NO keyboard input, if using X : the nouse doesn't move
> >at all and no keyboard input too)
>
> Are you sure you have enough SWAP space?  What you describe sounds like
> you ran out of SWAP space the the system started shedding processes.

Yes I think so : I have 256Mo of RAM and a 1Go SWAP partition.
the symptoms are often these :

everything freezes for a few seconds, then it comes OK, and a few seconds
later, it's completely frozen :-(

-- 
Samuel.