Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 08:05:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system unstable, how to make it stable again ? Message-ID: <19980131080541.24623@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980130142134.02f6aeec@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>; from Malte Lance on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:21:34PM -0100 References: <3.0.32.19980130142134.02f6aeec@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:21:34PM -0100, Malte Lance wrote: > At 09:12 30.01.98 +1030, you wrote: >> This sounds like hardware to me. I can't see how the modifications >> you made could cause this to happen >> >> You could try building a kernel with the kernel debugger, and see if >> you can get it into the debugger when it freezes, but I'd guess that >> there's some hardware problem behind it. > > Would say "Yes". But on the other hand, Win95 does not crash on this > machine. Ok ok it does not mean anything. It doesn't disprove the possibility, but it could point to specific problems. >> What's the hardware configuration? > > FreeBSD-2.1.5 (nooo, dont tell me to upgrade) Why not? It could be part of the problem. > P-133 > 64 MB > ATI-GPT-PCI 2 MB > AHA 2940 > 4 GB Fujitsu HD (SCSI) > 4 GB IBM HD (SCSI) > 1 GB IBM HD (SCSI) > Sony-SDT-7000 DAT-Streamer (SCSI) > Iomega ZIP (SCSI) > 6x CDROM (SCSI) > Iomega Floppystreamer (Tape 250) > SB-16 > NE-2000 > ASUS MB > AVM-Fritz ISDN-card You've got a lot of peripherals on this machine. Can you see any connection between peripheral activity and the hangups? How are you running the ISDN board? Do you get any error messages from the SCSI system? I seem to recall that there were problems with the 2940 driver in 2.1.5, and that's an area where you're less likely to have problems with Microsoft, since they don't use the SCSI bus to its full potential. > At least my question could be reduced to: Is it possible to get a > running system without anything else, like bootstrapping a > compiler ? I don't quite understand the question. Greg
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