Mark Hahn wrote me and convinced me that the problem I described is a
hardware problem, probably related to heat.
Testing bears this out.
I am still mystified as to why xemacs in particular should stress the
system more than everything else, but I've got the sanity check I was
looking for, and will treat it as a hardware problem from here on
out.
| I am having terribly frustrating system stability problems, and I
| can't figure out whether I should suspect hardware or the kernel.
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Jonathan Abbey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin
Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2
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