From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jun 29 0:27:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE93614D5B; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3692282; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:27:21 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Gary Palmer" Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AARGH!! "dead" Alpha 164SX (Was: Re: OK, any pointers on how to use SRM? :-)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jun 1999 03:06:29 -0400." <35063.930639989@noop.colo.erols.net> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:27:21 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990629072721.3692282@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary Palmer" wrote: > Mike Smith wrote in message ID > <199906262323.QAA00454@dingo.cdrom.com>: > > > > > > The next good question is.. what's up with softupdates? :-] Hmm.. say, > > > > No idea. We were unhappy with it at Usenix too. Perhaps I should send > > Kirk an Aplha? > > I have softupdates on the alpha snapshot building machine and its > never EVER crashed or had a filesystem problem. Makes me think there > is something else going on. It's running perfectly now, with allowances for buffer locking though. :-) I just hope the excessive alpha_pal_imb() calls are not too expensive.. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message