Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!spl1!wheaton!stefan From: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Help with mvaxII/Ultrix crashing irreversibly Message-ID: <987@wheaton.UUCP> Date: 10 Apr 89 17:41:20 GMT References: <2355@maccs.McMaster.CA> Reply-To: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle ) Distribution: na Organization: Wheaton College, IL Lines: 12 I realize this is unlikely, but you might have your swap area overlaying your root partition, or something to that effect. DEC suggested that to me 3 years ago when we were having some problems. I didn't have my swap over any other partitions, but they said they had seen it happen and it produced wild results. Stefan Brandle -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefan Brandle UUCP: ...!{spl1,obdient}!wheaton!stefan Wheaton College "But I never claimed to be sane!" ---------------------------------------------- MA Bell: (312) 260-4992 ---------