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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