Wierd, I noticed this recently and I blamed my SCSI driver code for the
hang, nice to know it probably wasn't my fault :-),
Although my SCSI driver does crash out mke2fs for some reason ah well,
back to the hacking ...
Dave.
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it known that using a swap partition is a no go on DECstations,
> garanteed to halt the system? It looks like that a swapped out process
> doesn't get swapped back, for example a telnet session unused for a
> while becomes dead. Compiling kernel or egcs the machine halts within
> the hour silently, or that the compiler receives a fatal signal as the
> last message.
>
> Using no swap space this is possible:
>
> 11:34pm up 2 days, 1:31, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.74, 0.93
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
>
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