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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 1997 22:47:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
Cc:        donal@brewich.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Subject:   Re: vm_fault problem (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970807224552.2073E-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19970808023849.48031@grendel.IAEhv.nl>

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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter Korsten wrote:

> Too bad that you don't mention what the setup used to be. What I'd
> suggest, is:
>     - Buy a quality motherboard, like Asus or Tyan. 'Gigabyte'
>       doesn't ring a bell, but that could be just me.
>     - Throw out the ISA video card and replace it with a (cheap)
>       PCI one. Though I've never had any problems with FreeBSD and
>       my previous ISA card, I did have them with Windows 95, together
>       with an Asus P55T2P4 motherboard and a Teles S0.16/3 ISDN
>       board. Still, I don't suspect that your gateway will run X,
>       so perhaps it's not the cause of the problem.
> 
> My personal experience is, that the more expensive your parts, the
> less problems you have. SCSI is to be prefered over IDE, though
> for a gateway, that probably isn't an issue, only for a server.
> 
> Don't economize on hardware. Lost customers and wasted time are
> far more expensive.

I've ran FreeBSD on a fairly expensive (at the time) ThinkPad 360CSE, and
had experienced very random reboots and the like.  Probably not caused by
the same thing though.  I finally had enough when a simple program crashed
and rebooted the whole system.

- alex




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