From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 7 22:47:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA24537 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 22:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@sfmax3-4.ppp.wenet.net [206.80.14.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA24523 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 22:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02118; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 22:47:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 22:47:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Peter Korsten cc: donal@brewich.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug White Subject: Re: vm_fault problem (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19970808023849.48031@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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