From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 20 23:30:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA10218 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 23:30:34 -0700 Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA10198 ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 23:30:28 -0700 Received: (from peter@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12/DIALix) id OAA03442; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 14:30:08 +0800 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 14:30:07 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm To: Karl Denninger cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , karl@Mcs.Net, current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUP target for -STABLE, and setup for SUP info? In-Reply-To: <199507210550.AAA00306@Jupiter.mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Jul 1995, Karl Denninger wrote: > > That is correct, we can't address your 1742/2742 problem in _any_ branch > > until we find what it is that is causing it. Since we have not identified > > that problem how could we have fixed it??? > > I thought Peter said it was a VM issue? Or was I mistaken? There's several problems. The "silent death" on the 1742 is/was a buffer cache leak, of which davigd has just recently committed the fix to -stable. IMHO, the 2742 problem is completely unrelated... (Karl, if you have a ncr controller handy, it might be worth trying that and seeing if that works for you.. I seem to recall you mentioning that the box with the 2742 is a new configuration, perhaps it might be worth trying a few an alternatives until the 2742 problem can be found? The ncr controllers should be pretty close in performance to the 2742's from what I've heard. I know it's not the answer to probable software problem, but it might get you out of a jam..) > > Perhaps you should get on the -STABLE branch, stay there, and let us > > work the problems in _one_ tree. > > That's what I'm going to do -- I'm supping the -STABLE branch right now onto > one of our development machines in a place that I can work with it and not > blow away anything else. That's good news... Please dont give up yet, we need to find the bugs you've run into... -Peter > -- > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity > Modem: [+1 312 248-0900] | (shell, PPP, SLIP, leased) in Chicagoland > Voice: [+1 312 248-8649] | 7 Chicagoland POPs, ISDN, 28.8, much more > Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net > ISDN - Get it here TODAY! | Home of Chicago's *Three STAR A* Clarinet feed! >