> > Is it only the console that locks up, or does the network lock up,
> > too?
> 
> I should have mentioned that the system is blipping the disk at about 1 sec
> intervals when the lockup has occurred. The system will respond to pings,
> but everything else (console login, rlogin, telnet, NFS accesses) hangs.
> I have a NetBSD/i386 machine that behaves much the same way, except that
> there are things happening when it locks up. I blame it's problems on the
> "swap leak for long lived processes" problem that has been discussed by
> others on -current. I remember seeing Perry comment that a VM re-write
> was needed to fix _that_ problem.

Hmm.  If you have swap space, and if it's not being all used up, that
shouldn't be a problem.  I don't see how it could all be used up
without you knowing it and/or noticing a problem starting to occur...

How much swap and RAM is on the machine, and after the machine has
been up for a while what does pstat -s say?


> > Could you send me (privately) your /etc/ttys?
> 
> It's the same as the one you distribute in /usr/src/etc/etc.alpha/ttys.

Which suggests that it should be edited to match the local machine's
configuration?  8-)  I doubt that that's your problem, though, given
your symptoms.


chris