Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 22:52:29 +1000 (EST) From: Gary Roberts <gdr@ajax.che.curtin.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Leaving OS at 1.1.5.1 (was Re: BSDvs Lxxxxx Flame.. ) Message-ID: <199601211252.WAA02010@ajax.che.curtin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601202022.VAA01530@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 20, 96 09:21:59 pm
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J Wunsch writes: > No, this machine is still on 1.1.5.1. And will remain so, i think. May I ask why, in particular? I have my personal system still at 1.1.5.1 too and it is very stable apart from one annoying thing. It is a notebook with 16 meg and 515 meg IDE disk (but shared with a rather inferior but unavoidable `other OS' unfortunately :-]. ) I run X and like to have a number of sessions to other hosts open simultaneously so I usually have 10 or more xterms going. Because I felt I needed to be a bit miserly with disk space, I only allocated 24 meg for swap (40 meg total VM seemed adequate at the time :-] ). Up until very recently I had never bothered `net-surfing' but when I loaded one of the 2.1.0 SNAP's on another machine at work, I decided to run the BSDI netscape 2.0b3 on the other machine, displaying on my external 17" monitor. It was late one night and I got quite engrossed. After about 2 hours, my notebook locked up hard and had to be power cycled. This scared me quite a bit but after rebooting and finding no apparent damage (although fsck did complain a bit :-] ) I ran netscape again on the other machine. Previous to this I had never had any problem whatsoever, so I was keen to find out why this happened. It's a long story, and there were several more lockups but I eventually noticed that the lock-ups were being caused by running out of swap. Quitting the netscape display and all of the xterms, except one, reclaimed some of the swap space but as soon as I restarted things it virtually all disappeared again immediately. I figured it was probably a known problem and that there were probably patches around somewhere to fix it. I didn't bother worrying about it too much as I planned to just upgrade to 2.1.0-RELEASE anyway. Pressure of other things has made me put off the upgrade for a bit but I was just about to start very soon. Your comment about not upgrading your 1.1.5.1 system made me wonder why not? Also does anyone have a pointer to any patches to fix whatever the problem is with swap allocation/deallocation on 1.1.5.1? Cheers, -- Gary Roberts (gdr@wcs.uq.edu.au) (Ph +617 3844 0400 Fax +617 3844 0444) 4th Floor, South Bank House, 234 Grey St, South Bank QLD 4101 Australia.
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