From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 15:52:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A47537B446 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e7JMqQU23433; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:52:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008192252.e7JMqQU23433@ptavv.es.net> To: "Matt Thomas" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is about as stable as windows98 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Aug 2000 14:43:50 EDT." Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:52:26 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is certainly NOT a common problem with FreeBSD, but it is a common problem with bad hardware, especially bad memory. I was seeing this very often until I returned my 64 MB SDRAM DIMM and got another one. The crashes went away. While this problem is most likely a memory problem, other hardware things can cause this failure. Power supply comes to mind. FWIW, I have been running FreeBSD 4.1-Stable for weeks without a crash and have NEVER had a system crash on FreeBSD (Stable) that was not attributable to either a hardware problem or broken externally sourced code. (Had a non-standard Ethernet driver kill me once.) On the whole, FreeBSD is in a tie for the most stable OS I have ever run. (VMS was equally solid, but I no longer have any VMS systems.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message