On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:20:38PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > It occured on 1.6 too. It should be better in 2.0, now that there is a kernel
> > thread to handle recovery, instead of busy-waits in the interrupt routine
> > (the network stack should still be functionnal, for example).
> 
> Hmm.  My desktop system appeared completely dead (I didn't try to
> ping it, had no other machine here at that time).  XFree didn't work,
> mouse pointer froze etc.  After a few minutes the system was back

Maybe it was trying to swap

> alive.  The weird thing is that there were no messages in syslog
> about the problem.  I didn't even know this was a disk problem until
> the disk locked up so bad that I had to power-cycle the system.

No message in dmesg either ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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