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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: load related problem or my compilation ?
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 04:42:30 +1100 (EST)
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I've been running three machines (including this one) on a local snapshot of
-current (my present one is about 2-3 weeks old) and decided that it might
help some hanging problems I had with a fourth.

Unfortunately, this machine is also the most heavily loaded (with PPP
dial-ins) and continues to stop dead .. no reboot .. nothing :-( Yet none of
my other machines do this.

It's a UMC 486DX/33, 16 meg of RAM, a gig of SCSI, all serial ports are
16550AFN .. however, the kernel is compiled with "-O2 -m486
-fno-strength-reduce" .. is this compilation likely to cause me this much
pain or should I start looking more closely at the hardware ?

I've already tried adding wait states to the cache, to main memory, reduced
the BusLogic's DMA rate .. it's now slower than my 386DX/40 and I'm running
out of options .. :-(

	michael