From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 11:28:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20734 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:28:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20696; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:27:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01501; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:27:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199802231927.OAA01501@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable In-Reply-To: from Steve Grandi at "Feb 23, 98 12:17:24 pm" To: grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:27:50 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Grandi said: > A progress report.... > > First, I have sent this to both questions and stable (where I started this > thread a week ago). If this is bad form, please rap my knuckles gently. > I suggest disabling swapping (paging will still work.) The errors that you are getting are wierd (those are the worst kind :-(). If swapping is enabled, and there are subtile problems with the system, the UPAGES being messed up can cause the kernel stack to be corrupt. options "NO_SWAPPING" This is a "stab in the dark", but I will try to watch your progress and bug reports. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message