On Wed, 11 May 2005, Arthur A. Person wrote:
It may be unrelated, but I had a system (actually, I still have it) that
has a memory leak in some I/O driver that jams the system over time. In
such a case, you will see the "-/+ buffers/cache used" column of "free"
increase steadily with time until the system hangs, at least that's what
mine does.
And I have also been made aware of machine crashes due to a buggy BIOS on
some Intel-based machines. College of DuPage has had problems with their
machine and is going to upgrade the BIOS shortly.
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