On Wed, 19 May 2010 16:14:52 -0700, Carl Johnson <ca...@peak.org> wrote: > I have been experimenting with FreeBSD for a while, and I consistently > get bash lockups at irregular intervals when it is otherwise idle. By > lockup, I mean that it stops responding to the keyboard and uses 100% > CPU. It will sometimes go for days with no problems, but I had two > yesterday, and other today. They have occurred on test systems > running in VirtualBox and on a real computer, both i386 and amd64 > images, and a mixture of 7.1, 7.3 and 8.0. They usually seem to > happen when I am switching tabs in konsole or switching shells in > screen, but other times I think they happen when I am not even using > the system. The only thing I have found I can do is to do a kill -9 > and start a new shell.
Does this lock-up happen if you leave the shell 'idle' for too long over an ssh session? There may be problems with stateful connection tracking between your terminal and the remote shell :-/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"