In message <Pine.BSF.4.51.0411271804420.80481@vegeta.city-net.com>, Matthew Org
ass writes:
>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.
>

Or run memtest (from pkgsrc)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb