Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:54:53 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time travelling news server Message-ID: <199602061654.KAA16332@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <peter.823572091@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Feb 6, 96 02:01:31 am
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> I saw this behavior on -current a month or so ago about when PHK was doing > the bcd stuff.. If I remember rightly, the spammed date got written into > my CMOS. Running 2.1R-almost (i.e. one of the SNAP's that was essentially 2.1R with a loose end or two). > >It's been a week for problems with my news box. :-/ > Are you running -current or -stable on it? My news box has been doing > wonderfully well under a new -current kernel (from Jan 11). It's currently > got an uptime of 24 days (which is a record for the -current FreeBSD > machines here). This machine used to crash every few days before that last > update. It's only a garden-variety hardware box though.. (486, ISA, > AHA1542CF) It's keeping up with it's load but has no spare disk bandwidth at > all - it's running at near 100% head seek saturation 24 hours a day and is > going to need an upgrade (more disk, more RAM) soon. No, the problems are hardware related, I'm going to replace the power harnesses on my drive arrays ... hooking up a slew of drives is never fun. However, I had been thinking about upgrading to -stable.. heard some good things about it. ... JG
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