>I have the a 486DX and with Slackware 96 installed in it. It was running >well for the last two years. Suddenly from the day before yesterday when >I am running concurently "gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=legal >-sOutputFile=m%d <a big .ps file consisting of 157 pages> -c quit" >concurrently with LaTeX compilation under "emacs" the machine is telling >after some time "hda time out", "hda busy" and the operation is stopping; >if in X, then the cursor gets still and I have to do a hrad boot. > > Please tell me what is the problem and what is its remedy. > Make sure you aren't circularly writing (ie. writing to a file which calls part of its self and then inserts its self into its self etc.) I mistakenly did this once when compiling a LaTeX doc and it chewed through all my hard drive space before I knew what was going on (thankfully I only had to delete one file).
