> > Would everyone agree that it's not a "good thing" for a user-mode
> > program to be able to lock up the OS?
> >
> There are severall resons.
> One of them is that I got panics with a to high set MAXUSER in kernel options.
> I don't know if it's a problem with 3.2.
> The other possible reason might be a CPU overheating. CPUs used under FreeBSD
> are typicall suspended during idle-time - when running seti or other permanent
> running programms there is no idle time.
I didn't know that. This laptop does have a fan for the P-75....
But, I don't believe it is that problem. You see, I can run it
for about 5 minutes and *poof* - the machine is gone.
> I asume there are several more possbilities.
> But it sounds like there is something broken with your configuration.
I think I'll need to put ddb in the kernel and see what's
happening, since I get no panic or anything...
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