From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 23 13:48:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19766 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:48:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from noao.edu (noao.edu [140.252.1.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19729; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:48:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grandi@noao.edu) Received: from mirfak.tuc.noao.edu (grandi@mirfak.tuc.noao.edu [140.252.1.9]) by noao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7/SAG-02Dec97) with SMTP id OAA08925; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:47:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from grandi@noao.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:47:29 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Grandi X-Sender: grandi@mirfak.tuc.noao.edu To: "John S. Dyson" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable In-Reply-To: <199802231927.OAA01501@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I will get this option a try and report back... Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, Arizona USA Internet: grandi@noao.edu Voice: +1 520 318-8228 On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > 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-stable" in the body of the message