From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 21:14:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12544 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12523 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:14:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@cdsnet.net) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA29131 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:14:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:14:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [ I am messing around with a 3 processor P6/233 system to potentially do some heavy-duty database work, and it hasn't been able to complete a make buildworld yet. Crashes with a wide variety of errors. Pop in the NT drive, works fine. FreeBSD crash. Just about to shoot the damn thing, and...] a tickle of somebody saying something (DG I think) about mixing RAM types. So I pop the cover off this bad boy and lo and behold, 2 64MB parity's from one vendor, 2 more 64MB parity's froma different vendor. Replaced them so all 4 were the same vendor, and it is solid as the proverbial rock. 2 buildworlds later, -j8, a few million db inserts, and no problems. I *love* this OS. I'm running -current as of today. If the last of the NFS problems get ironed out so my netapp is happy, I can probably retire.