From: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
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Subject: Re: Failure during timing-sensitive application...
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:02:57 -0700
Organization: Institute for el. Measurement, University of Linz, Austria
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Tom Sgouros wrote:
> The problem is this: One time in three (give or take), the program hangs
> mysteriously in the first minute of execution. An unexplainable disk
> access (i.e. there is no program file access) coincides with the hang. If
> it doesn't hang within a minute, it seems to run indefinitely.

Did you use smartdrive or another disk-caching program? Most of them may write 
buffers back to disk in background, at this time you may loose interrupts which in 
turn may crash some programs.

Roland 
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