From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 15 11:34:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA20299 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pompano.pcola.gulf.net (root@pompano.pcola.gulf.net [198.69.72.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA20255; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (spatula@localhost.gulf.net [127.0.0.1]) by pompano.pcola.gulf.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22427; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 13:33:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 13:33:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Johnson X-Sender: spatula@pompano.pcola.gulf.net To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reasonable diagnosis? In-Reply-To: <199706151734.MAA00300@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > Not regarding the drive, but regarding the kernel... If ANY swapping > occurs, the upages can be corrupted, the kernel will likely crash. > In essence, if you have a system that SIG-11's at all due to hardware > problems, your system will be much more vulnerable if you swap. That would be consistant with what I'm seeing; things usually run fine until I start using swap. Nick -- "...some people without brains do an awful lot of talking" -- the Scarecrow (The Wizard of Oz) Nick Johnson, version 1.0 http://www.pcola.gulf.net/~spatula/