[iyonix-support] Re: Occasional Machine Freezes
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:09:47 +0200
In message <4e4c6a4dedMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Occasionally (perhaps once a week or so) the machine locks up, and with
> an Alt-Break usually BookMaker is listed, so I stop it and all is well
> again, even if I then restart BookMaker. Very occasionally the same
> happens but it is NOT BookMaker, but again the app can be stopped and
> restarted.
Please can we try and not confuse our estalished terminology and not
call this "freezing". If you can get out of it cleanly with Alt-break
then this is relatively harmless and nowhere near the effects of a
machine FREEZE - which means the pointer stops moving and all you can
do is switch the machine off. Real freezes are a major problem and
usually caused by failures in either the hardware or the operating
system (though, unfortunately, there are programming errors, in
particular in modules, that can cause machine freezes, too).
A "freeze" like you described above has nothing to do with the machine
as such, it is simply an *application* locking up (NB. not "the
machine" locking up). It can be caused by all sorts of simple
programming mistakes in applications.
Martin
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