>From: Arno Griffioen <arno@usn.nl>
>
>Hmm.. Something strange is going on on my 3600...
>
>When I boot it all is fine. 'ps' works fine, 'w' works.
>
>After a while (and I haven't fond the trigger yet) I can still 
>work on it OK, but stuff like 'ps' outputs some info and
>then goes to never-never land.. 'w' does output the load
>and some user-info, but also never returns after that.

This sounds suspiciously like a problem I experienced on a VAXstation
3100 (VS42A-BA).  If you let it sit in never-never land for 5 or 10
minutes, do you get a panic?

See PR port-vax/4043.

Cheers,
entropy

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