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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