hmm, on Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 03:49:00PM -0600, Chris Bennett said that > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 06:05:10PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > > hi there, > > > > since a couple of snapshosts back i can quite reliably > > freeze my openbsd notebook simply by leaving it on > > overnight. the desktop is there, all the open windows > > are there, but it has become a painting... > > nothing in the logs, no panic, nothing. > > anybody else is seeing something similar? > > > > -f > > > > My notebook would freeze up regularly, especially after I had > opened "enough" applications. > > This was somewhat annoying. :) > > Turned out that my hard drive was at the edge of failure. > I am guessing that needing to swap to the hard drive after free > memory filled up caused the failures. I could be wrong.
a dying disk tends to make quite a lot of noise in the logs.. i see no signs of that so far. and i have lots of fsck's because of unclean shutdowns. basically nowadays every clean shutdown is cause for celebration. (difficult to believe no people see this, every notebook i had since 2008 could not shutdown cleanly 50-70% of the time) as to the memory, i have a usb stick with linux that has memtest86 as boot option. i can leave that overnight as well. hardware is always suspect, but it's so difficult to test... -f -- sorry guys, this is not heavy metal.
