On 2004-11-27 theo4490@borm.org wrote:

> You still had 512MB of physical memory to play with. In my case "sluggish"
> was not the word. I waited for more than 8 hours for the system to come back
> up, and it didn't. I've also had sudden reboots because of this.

  This sounds like bad memory or overheating.  Try a large build with GCC
(a NetBSD build works well for this).  I'll bet you will encounter random
failures.

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com