Can't offer any expertise here, but I'm interested in keeping the
thread alive.
One possible source of system freeze is RAM. The fact that NT manages
to run ok and Linux does not is not necessarily significant. Different
operating systems use RAM differently, and problems could show up with
one and not the other. I've had this experience myself. I know of no
reliable way to test RAM other than to swap some of it and watch for
the effect if any.
I can get a comparable system freeze with one bad application:
Netscape. Sometimes I think there's a bug in Netscape's menuing, or
that it fails to handle poorly designed Javascript, but in any case,
everything freezes. Without keyboard or mouse input, I've no choice
but to do a dirty shutdown. When I upgraded from RH 6.0 to 6.2, it
seems the problem has disappeared (Netscape still hands occasionally,
but I have keyboard input to kill the process). Not clear how a minor
upgrade would solve this problem, but I'm reporting my experience for
whatever its worth.
Haines Brown
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