From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 16 12:55:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25523 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:55:33 -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 MAA25438 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:55:02 -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 NAA29982; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:54:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from grandi@noao.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:54:56 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Grandi X-Sender: grandi@mirfak.tuc.noao.edu To: Mike D Tancsa cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable In-Reply-To: <199802162019.PAA10483@granite.sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Now there is a thought! Thanks, Mike, for the suggestion. I have been running the Adaptec with "Ultra" speed enabled. Probably worth a try to to set 10 MBps instead of 20 (and then perhaps 8?) and see what happens. On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Mike D Tancsa wrote: > > The hardware: PentiumPro-200 (Venus MotherBoard), 128 MB of RAM, Adaptec > > 2940 Ultra-Wide SCSI controller, two Seagate ST32155W 2GB disks, a > > Its a long shot, but I found that turning down the SCSI controller speed in > my news server to 8 instead of 10 made a HUGE difference for me. The problem > was not there in the 2.1 tree but surfaced when I upgraded the machine to the > 2.2 tree.... > > ---Mike > Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, Arizona USA Internet: grandi@noao.edu Voice: +1 520 318-8228 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message