From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Nov 17 19:57:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA07014 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 19:57:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA06979; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 19:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA28332; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:55:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA28115; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:55:26 -0500 (EST) To: Heikki Suonsivu cc: Peter Wemm , FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: kern/1698: sup from around 21:51 GMT 28th very unstable (mmap, maybe?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:55:03 +0200." <199611170855.KAA25317@katiska.clinet.fi> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:55:26 -0500 Message-ID: <28113.848289326@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Heikki Suonsivu wrote in message ID <199611170855.KAA25317@katiska.clinet.fi>: > Has anyone got a news server running reliably with kernels later than end > of August (preferably ones with tag RELENG_2_2) ? It seems odd that I can > repeat this so easily, I would assume a lot of people should see this ? I > have gotten metoos from (only?) three people now. This problem has been > there for about 2 months now. root@news:~> uname -a FreeBSD news.webspan.net 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Nov 2 13:36:08 EST 1996 gpalmer@news.webspan.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS i386 root@news:~> uptime 10:53PM up 12 days, 9:09, 13 users, load averages: 1.20, 1.18, 1.17 root@news:~> > The system is 3940, seagate Hawks for news disks, P120 ASUS TritonII, 96M. > Exports two NFS disks (not the news partitions). Try putting `AHC_FORCE_PIO' in your config file and see. From GENERIC: options "AHC_FORCE_PIO" # Some motherboards choke on MemI/O, # so use PIO in the ahc driver in the # generic kernel. Personally, on a Tyan Titan Pro M/B, I've got no problems without this option in place. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info