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<DIV>FP 5.0 on SCO Unix OS 5.06</DIV>
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<DIV>Several times per day this Unix box "stops" for 5-10 seconds for no apparent reason. I use the word stop as oppose to "lock-up" because it is different than what I have ever seen before. When it stops, no key strokes are accepted from the console or any terminal. You can't even "Alt-Fn" to another screen. The system just stops. While stopped any key strokes are NOT stored, i.e. when it "starts" the key strokes entered during the stop are NOT processed. It starts again on its own with no action taken by a user. It is not a fatal error but, obviously, very annoying in a busy office environment.</DIV>
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<DIV>I asked this question about a few months ago when it first started and did not get much response. A few weeks ago this machine had a hard drive failure and I thought perhaps when I replaced the hard drive the problem might go away (not sure why I thought that... just hoping). But it didn't, and the users are beginning to doubt my "guruness" since I can't fix this.</DIV>
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<DIV>Recently I have been suspecting a memory or processor problem, at least something hardware related... my hardware builder thinks maybe a cache problem. I'm stumped.</DIV>
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<DIV>Am I not thinking about some Unix setting? Has anyone ever experienced such a problem? Any ideas where to start looking for the problem? TIA.</DIV>
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<DIV>-Lee</DIV>
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