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From: 72yan M <freedom@72oot.net>
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Subject: Re: core dump problem
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:48:07 -0800
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On Monday 25 February 2002 23:47, you T

I think your raid drive can't keep up with your computer.

What is the stripe size of your RAID 1 ? 
What is the blocksize of your partitions ? 

Here is a good article on RAID. 
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/concepts/perfStripe-c.html

Install iozone from ports and try it out in a large partition "#iozone -a" 


72yan M

>  Hello there,
> I have installed FreeBSD on a pentium 4 with 512Mb of memory and 2x120Gb
> ata hard disks (RAID level1). My problem is that I get lots of core dumps
> from various programs, mostly from make, even if I'm just compiling vim6.
> I also get the behavior of a corrupted file system, but the disks are new,
> checked and empty.
> Any suggestions on what I should check?
> Thanks,
> Nick Vallianos
>
>
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