Hi Manuel && others
Some further info:

load averages:  1.48,  0.95,  0.48                                     =20=

        08:33:12
31 processes:  1 runnable, 29 sleeping, 1 on processor
CPU states: 71.1% user,  0.0% nice, 28.9% system,  0.0% interrupt, =20
0.0% idle
Memory: 29M Act, 4K Inact, 484K Wired, 2592K Exec, 15M File, 131M Free
Swap: 770M Total, 770M Free

   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU=20
COMMAND
  6153 root      64    0  7196K 7752K RUN        0:21 96.99% 64.75% cc1
     6 root      18    0     0K   21M syncer     0:48  0.05%  0.05%=20
[ioflush]
     5 root     -18    0     0K   21M reaper     0:06  0.00%  0.00%=20
[reaper]
   170 root       2    0   444K 1452K select     0:04  0.00%  0.00% sshd
   184 root      10    0   256K  668K nanoslee   0:01  0.00%  0.00% cron
   160 root       2    0   456K  376K select     0:01  0.00%  0.00%=20
routed
  6028 nse       28    0   212K  968K CPU        0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
   179 root      18    0    88K  680K pause      0:00  0.00%  0.00% =
inetd
  6001 root      10    0   864K 1440K wait       0:00  0.00%  0.00% make


no swap space is used.... lots of memory free.... what is this ?
I am willing to accept tha the initial install was ...."flawed" for=20
whatever reason.. but twice! I have trouble believing
that.. in particular as the 1.6.0 CD' used for this is running=20
perfectly on two other boxes...

s=F8ndag 7. sep 2003 kl. 23:26 skrev Manuel Bouyer:

> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:21:52PM +0200, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
>> Hi guys
>> I have the weirdest of problems...
>> I have installed 1.6.1(and now lately 1.6.0) of my trusty 7300/200 =
box
>> with 196 MB memory, ), 9Gb Seagate ST39140N disk...
>> For a long time I could not the system to compile on 1.6.1... after
>> some time of compilation(various packages from the "pkgsrc"
>> tree:apache, postgresql etc..). I finally gave up thinking there had=20=

>> to
>> be something wrong with the CD or the version of the ISO-image that I
>> had burned ) ...
>> Now I have installed 1.6.0 (from a CD where I have very good=20
>> experience
>> on other systems) and the system behaves in the exact same manner....
>> Compiling for instance postgresql goes through it's motions(initially
>> it ran our tmp space on the root partition; no worries, made a soft
>> link to the /usr partition which has some 7GB of free space) ... the
>> system compile and compile, and after a while the system just =
hangs...
>> I am somewhat at a loss here... no discernible dumps/panics or the
>> like... just hangs!
>> By the way it is actually the "cc1" program thats running at the time
>> when the 7200 system comes to a standstill....
>>
>> Any ideas anyone ?????
>
> Maybe your system is running out of swap ?
> Try to run top while compiling, and see how free ram and swap go
>
> --=20
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
>
>
mvh/kind regards
Niels S. Eliasen
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