[H-GEN] PPP and low memory..

[Jason Parker]

> We can dial up, and get pppd going via minicom fine, by quitting out
> and not resetting the modem, and manually running pppd, but any
> attempt to use a chat script to automate it is met with inconsistant
> behaviour, and the machine seems to run rather slowly, even tho it
> is hardly running anything.  Rob has also attempted this on another
> 8 meg machine, and locked it up hard.  Has anyone else seen any
> situation like this?  Any tips? 

I was using chat to get a box to dial up last weekend, with no
hassles, but it *was* a 16 meg box.  It barely ever hit the swapfile
though (from the output of free) so I would hazard a guess that
perhaps a broken copy of chat is to blame?  

Or maybe some other program is chewing up all that ram.  I couldn't
say, cos I don't know what software you're running on it...  But then
again, you do say that hardly anything else is running, so maybe it
would not take long to eliminate possible suspects. 

Also, if the box is locking up hard, then maybe it is pppd which is
killing the box, cos, it's like, you know, setuid and everything.
Last time I checked chat had no special priveleges.

Just my 5c, dunno why I am even bothering to send something so lame to
the list...  Oh well.

Jason
ph330812 at student.uq.edu.au

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