From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 7 12:11:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03202 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03193 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id VAA28926; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:01:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) id UAA05453; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:51:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970407205133.25289@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:51:33 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Terry Lambert Cc: dennis , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem FOUND References: <3.0.32.19970405105105.00a53e70@etinc.com> <199704052032.NAA23589@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199704052032.NAA23589@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 01:32:09PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 01:32:09PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >That's odd.. I had no problems installing 2.2R or 2.2.1R over NFS with an > > >old ISA-only 486 with 8MB of RAM. > > > > Since there seems to be widespread doubt about this conclusion, > > if someone can get me a boot disk with some diagnostics for > > memory usage I'd be more than happy to try to track this down (as > > its no doubt going to bite me in the future)....theres a limited amount > > of info that I can gather with the install disk unfortunatly..... > > A good memory diagnostic is to boot the FreeBSD install; if it fails > in 8M or more, you probably have flakey RAM. 8-). BSDI comes with a RAM tester as add on utiliy on the BSDI CD. YOu can dd floppy image to floppy, boot from that floppy ... Here it didn't work ... -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<