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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Another installment of the "dup alloc"/"bad dir" panic problems.
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:28:16 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970302000640.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 2, 97 00:06:40 am
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> > How much RAM do you have?
> > 
> > If you have more than 16M ... it's bouncing.  Try backing down to
> > 16M and not bouncing and see if that's where it is...
> 
> Moot point, try again.  I have seen it on a 1542A with 8 MB of RAM.
> Heikki has experienced it on his news servers, which are much larger
> machines that certainly don't suffer from ISA bus braindeadness (in
> this respect).
> 
> No, if it were that simple, we'd be happy.

It's not a moot point if it's being bounced.  Wasn't it you who
pointed me out to be wrong about whether or not the "BOUNCE_BUFFERS"
option was necessary any more?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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