From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 22 10:17:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1817316A41F for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:17:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (59.Red-81-33-11.staticIP.rima-tde.net [81.33.11.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC7043D55 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:17:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.24.8.84] (generic.atosorigin.es [212.170.156.200]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7FC32E045; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:16:55 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43AA7D16.7000509@locolomo.org> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:16:54 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051214) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay References: <43AA617C.7040709@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Donkeys crash FreeBSD6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:17:01 -0000 Jay wrote: > On 12/22/05, Erik Norgaard wrote: > >>Hi: >> >>I have tried using both mldonkey and xmule on my FreeBSD6, and both are >>able to crash the system. >> >>I have used mostly mldonkey, and even running only the core the system >>crashes at unknown events: It has happened on FBSD 5.4 and 6.0 with & >>without X and other applications running. I also suspect mldonkey to >>have destroyed one disk. >> >>Yesterday I tried xmule, but it only ran 4 hours then the system crashed. >> >>I am fairly certain that no other program is causing the crash, it >>happens only if one of these are running and independent on what other >>applications are running. Without xmule or mldonkey running my system is >>stable as rock. >> > In my case, it was bad capacitor on mobo which freezed system when > there were *heavy* hdd activity. Interesting, I can't really talk about heavy disk activity: With mldonkey it appears to be big files, and system may run out of memory to handle this? With xmule I see no such indication, I got just 2.5MB of an ISO. Is this a problem with all ed2k clients? Is bittorrent more stable protocol/implementation? Which client is recomendable? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9