On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:22:22PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
> this has been happening frequently.  i'm begining to think of it as a
> curse since it started to happen on a freebsd box at the same location.
> 
> i have NetBSD 1.6 on my sparc20.  the problem is when i try to do anything
> that takes some time (building from packages for example) the system will
> become unresponsive... sort of lockup.
> 
> does anyone have any advice for me on how to resolve this issue?

Can you run top while doing it, and watch the amout of free ram and swap
space ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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