On Saturday 10 February 2001 12:40 pm, Jan-Uwe Finck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anybody else noticed this ?
>
> My IDE-HD and the rest of the machine are simply hanging under
> high load (in each anoncvs update, for example..),
> but can be revived by simply sending some pings to
> the machine over the network..
>
> The LED is running, the machine is no more responding to the keyboard
> or mouse, but a ping makes it behave like normal again.
>
> It's not that it is a real problem... but an interesting one :-)

What network card have you got?  I suspect that the network card code is 
getting stuck, the ping just makes it wake up.

Cheers,
Chris