The freezing that I have experienced do not crash the machine. Once every
few days, a process (usually `make') will freeze and not respond to a any
keyboard input. It is as if the system stopped giving it time slices. I
have to kill it from another window and then restart the process.
-- John E. Davis Center for Space Research/AXAF Science Center 617-258-8119 MIT 37-662c, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://space.mit.edu/~davis