title: BeagleBone Black freezes
body: <p>We are currently developing an application for BeagleBone Black (using the standard Angstrom distro). It runs quite happily for a while (5-10 minutes) under GDB (controlled by Netbeans remotely) but at some relatively random point in time will freeze - the heartbeat LEDs stop flickering and a complete reboot is required.</p>
  
  <p>One possibility is that it is simply the number of (USB) devices that is causing this. We are connected by an FTDI serial link to my development PC (there is a client application that talks to my BBB server). There is a 4-way FTDI hub with multiple devices (3 currently) on that, a further single FTDI connection with another bit of hardware attached. Also, two I2C devices. Plus mouse and keyboard.</p>
  
  <p>Of course I have no evidence other than hearsay that it's USB causing the problem. My software is not causing any signals, the log file tells me very little more. I have run the system monitor application to see if I'm leaking memory but it seems well behaved and stable (though CPU did creep up). I'd like to find a way to get to the bottom of what's failing, and would appreciate some assistance.</p>