Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 00:36:19 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Kent Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What has happened to FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990504003619.N73741@001101.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <199905040055.TAA02799@isua2.iastate.edu>; from Kent Vander Velden on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 07:55:40PM -0500 References: <199905040055.TAA02799@isua2.iastate.edu>
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On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 07:55:40PM -0500, Kent Vander Velden wrote: > > Lately (over the past few months) I have been having numerous > problems with FreeBSD. Well, actually only a single problem that is > the machine (dual pentium 133) crashes very often. In hope of finding > a stable release of -STABLE (yes, my "-stable" machine is lucky to last > a day before a reboot) I have been running cvsup and building and > installing a new kernel at least once a week. Please note that also It's funny, my 3.1-STABLE system has performed flawlessly since its birthday in mid-May. It's been rebooted for new kernels and for a disk installation, but has never crashed. Is the stability of the system so dependent on the hardware? Mine is not unusual. Was your system upgraded to 3.x from 2.2.x? foo gsutter ~ $date; uptime; uname -a Tue May 4 00:31:08 PDT 1999 12:31AM up 30 days, 7:58, 21 users, load averages: 1.07, 1.05, 1.01 FreeBSD foo.bar.com 3.1-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #5: Wed Mar 17 19:53:15 PST 1999 root@foo.bar.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/FOO i386 Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Heisenberg might have been here. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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