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- From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD hangs
- Message-ID: <david.715826615@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
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- Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
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- Date: 7 Sep 92 00:43:35 GMT
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- wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
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- >BTW, if you use 8MB+ systems, make sure you either use a patched
-
- I have 8MB. Please point me to the 'stability patch' you mentioned. I have
- other patches such as X386 and BUS Mouse patches I have to keep.
-
- >>Also, I have had problems where while swapping the IDE drive (which has
- As I reread that paragraph I realised I hadn't typed what I had been thinking!
-
- >Sounds like a bug in the SCSI driver...The pause is because it gets
-
- Here it goes again:
- I have had problems while having the system configured to mount a SCSI
- disk as /usr, and while booting from and swapping to an IDE. During heavy
- activity, causing large amounts of swapping such as compiling with 'gcc',
- the SCSI drive will go idle, and the IDE drive will pause for up to 10
- seconds with the activity light (on the IDE) on and steady. The SCSI drive
- will find itself without any more IO requests, and will shortly after
- auto park itself. When the IDE comes back to life, it will be a gradual
- return to frenzies activity...
-
- Note that since I reinstalled 386BSD from scratch, this time *NOT* applying
- patches indescriminately, the problem appears to have gone. I now only have
- the X386 and BusMouse patches, (+ init patches, + des, + ps,kvm_mkdb,etc,
- + telnet kludge mode, and a few other non-kernel patches)
-
- >Lynne.
- Thanks.
- David.
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