Subject: Re: 1.3.3 hang, what should I check?
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/08/1999 11:56:58
On Jan 7, David Maxwell wrote
> On one of the systems that I've upgraded to 1.3.3, when I run a certain
> math oriented utility (which I won't name in this message, until I've
> had a chance to determine if this could be used to do DoS attacks, and
> hopefully have a fix.) the following results:
> 
> The machine is frozen, caps lock still toggles LED.
> Network still responds to ping, but nothing else.
> No response on console.
> 
> [...]

Sounds like you're runuing out of swap. Can you run a 'top' or a periodic
'pstat -s' in another window while you're running your app ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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