hmm, this could be because of some bad hardware, and i'm thinking hard
drive right at the moment, because mac IIvx's have a SCSI (DMA?) problem
with quantum drives+ncrscsi kernels. this problem makes the activity light
on my hard drive go on for about 30-40 seconds, paralyzing everything
about my computer, and a long error is then posted in syslog.  I have had
other occurances with other drives (and older distributions) making my
hard drive paralyzed (with the activity light on) along with my computer,
but fine after a reboot.
I don't know the reason for the problems i descibe as having in old dists,
but the new one seems to be some scsi problem that's unresolved on IIvx's
(which, incidently, are supposedly identical to performa 600's).
see if you can see any hard drive activity stuff going on. maybe the disk
is bad (or getting bad) :\
good luck,
  - a


On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Josh Hope wrote:

> I've experienced a problem last night that really perplexed me. My 
> machine was running high on an uptime of about 6 days, when it FROZE. 
> Yes, just like the Mac OS would freeze...
> 
> I wasn't doing anything abnormal at the time. Nothing to cause this type 
> of thing. Before the 6 day uptime, I had 20 days...so the machine, as you 
> can see, was quite stable.
> 
> So, I restarted back into NetBSD, and went to bed (I was really tired). 
> When I woke up the next morning, it was frozen AGAIN.
> 
> I was running dt both times (but this should not make a difference. I 
> have not changed dt at all in the past 3 or 4 months, and I run it 
> constantly).
> 
> To explain what I mean by "FREEZE":
> 
> The mouse cursor wouldn't move. Could not type anything on the screen. 
> Could not switch terminals with command-1, 2, etc.
> 
> Of course, it wasn't merely my computer being sluggish. There was no disk 
> access, and modem lights were not active at all.
> 
> This morning, when I woke up and found the computer frozen again, it 
> looked like it was frozen for quite a while. Probably it froze shortly 
> after I went to bed. I rebooted NetBSD again this morning, and this time 
> it froze after about 5 minutes...
> 
> Anyways, as to my configuration:
> 
> Performa 600
> 12MB RAM
> Generic SBC #26 kernel
> 
> I don't know if anything else would be necessary. I seriously have done 
> NO changes whatsoever with my system, for the past 6 days, and it ran 
> fine for 6 days straight. One day, it decides to "kapuut"!
> 
> BTW, some of you may know me from otaku@hick.com, I'm back again...
> 
> Thanks a lot with the help,
> 
> Josh Hope
>