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To: "'Dan Busarow'" <dan@dpcsys.com>, mheath@netspace.net.au
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Subject: RE: Is there still problems with Adaptec UW controllers (fwd)
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I had similar problemw with innd and 2.2.2-RELEASE....  I think I found
a workaround for the problem (the system has not rebooted for over a
week now:

	Every 6 hours, I rtun a cron job that restarts  innd.

I can take head or tails of this...  I just know it seems to work
(knowck on wood).

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dan Busarow [SMTP:dan@dpcsys.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 19, 1997 12:12 PM
> To:	mheath@netspace.net.au
> Cc:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Is there still problems with Adaptec UW controllers
> (fwd)
> 
> I believe that the adaptec problems have been resolved.
> 
> I'm forwarding this to the ISP list for confirmation.
> 
> Dan
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 13:10:25 +1000 (EST)
> From: Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Is there still problems with Adaptec UW controllers
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 	Im wondering if there are still bugs in the 2.2.2 release of 
> FreeBSD.
> We're running a News Server which is rebooting randomly.  With no
> error 
> messages showing in /var/logs/messages.
> 
> The machine has an Adaptec 3940 UW controller with 5 "FUJITSU
> M2954Q-512 
> 0147" drives (4149 MB).  3 on channel A and 2 on channel B.
> 
> The machine is using ccd on 4 of the drives.
> /etc/ccd.conf:
> ccd0    2048    none    /dev/sd1s1e /dev/sd2s1e /dev/sd3s1e
> /dev/sd4s1e
> 
> The News server is INN 1.5.1 sec 2
> 
> I've made changes to the Kernel config  including the recommended for
> a 
> News Server:
> 
> options         "MAXMEM=262144"
> options         CHILD_MAX=256
> options         OPEN_MAX=1024
> options         "MAXDSIZ=(256*1024*1024)"
> options         "DFLDSIZ=(256*1024*1024)"
> options         "FD_SETSIZE=2048"
> options         "NMBCLUSTERS=4096"
> 
> 
> Is anyone running a similar system.  Or News Server? 
> 
> Does Anyone know how to get more information about what is causing the
> 
> machine to reboot?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- mark heath - Netspace Online Systems.  http://www.netspace.net.au/
> :wq