From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 4 20:42:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA20395 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 20:42:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA20390 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 20:42:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA20754; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 21:24:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704050424.VAA20754@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem FOUND To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 21:24:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970404174607.00aa89a4@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Apr 4, 97 05:46:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I then remembered that I had noticed that 2.2R was a bit clunky with > 8 meg of ram, so I popped in another 8 meg, and the problems > disappeared. So, it seems, ftp and nfs loads cant be done on at > 8 meg system. More likely, your RAM is flakey, and you are simply changing the usage pattern such that the flakey RAM is no longer critical path. Any chance of you playing a game of "shuffle the SIMMs" to verify this? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.