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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Occasional system hangs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.073053.2721@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1g95ueINNhri@manuel.anu.edu.au> <andrewh.724059111@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> <jason.724071780@sorokin>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 07:30:53 GMT
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- In article <jason.724071780@sorokin> jason@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Jason Andrade) writes:
- >Well, im going to have fun when [more likely IF] i get X happening. Not.
- >Oh, system uptime record so far is way behind your 12 hours and its a nominally
- >'quiet' machine....
- >
- >>Time for more RAM I guess!
- >
- >Would be nice, but I'd prefer a patch to the kernel myself. :-)
-
- This is the correct soloution. Basically, remove evrything in the kernel
- you don't have installed in your machine.
-
- RAM isn't a problem; I have run a sufficiently stripped kernel on a 640K
- (no extended or expanded memory!) 386 Box with an NE2K card for periods
- in excess of 4 days with moderate usage (20 Meg swap on a 30 Meg drive
- and /usr remote mounted). Moderate usage is 3 users curious about it and
- beating on the compiler. Obviously, no X 8-).
-
- I think there are a number of questionable drivers; I also thing that the
- stability is vastly improved after installing all patches (and the patches
- to them and the mbuf/kern_* code posted here after the patchkit release).
-
- The vast majority of the patches Nate is putting into the new patchkit are
- stability patches and should improve things for heavy memory users.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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