From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat May 25 07:16:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA25185 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 07:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from black.gensys.com (black.gensys.com [206.109.98.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA25150; Sat, 25 May 1996 07:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhupp@localhost) by black.gensys.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id JAA07143; Sat, 25 May 1996 09:15:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Hupp Message-Id: <199605251415.JAA07143@black.gensys.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: SCSI hangs, panics and other failures as nntp serv To: cjl@qnet.com (Chris Linstruth) Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 09:15:50 -0500 (CDT) Cc: rlyon@ozemail.com.au, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chris Linstruth" at May 25, 96 06:02:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris Linstruth shaped the electrons to the following form: : Are you processing 200000 Usenet articles a day? And supporting : readers? Yes and yes. $uptime 9:09AM up 18 days, 10:55, 1 user, load averages: 1.22, 1.50, 1.78 $readers 22 $ : : I'm certain we wouldn't be seeing any problems if the load wasn't : so stressful. At least not as often. : : It's not that the system doesn't run. It's been up almost 4 days on : this boot. A crash is inevitable though. : The above system is a 486DX-100 with 32 Meg RAM, running 2.1-STABLE. It has a 20 Gig array on an adaptec VLB controller using the CCD driver. It's only been up 18 days because the other sysadmin hit the wrong reset button 18 day, 10 hours, and 55 minute ago.... If you are crashing that often, you aren't running -STABLE, you have something misconfigured in your BIOS chip set settings, or you have some problem hardware. -- Windows '95 ~ Never has so much done so little for so many. Jeff Hupp PGP Public Key available at http://gensys.com or on the key servers