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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD or FreeBSD? Stability ?? Date: 9 Feb 94 06:03:23 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 32 Message-ID: <michaelv.760773803@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <2ir0h9$cme@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <michaelv.760512226@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <2j97pr$b2p@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <2j97pr$b2p@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: >michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >>I pound my NetBSD-current system (with shared libs) mercilessly, and >>it refuses to crash. I run X and a high-speed modem line. Let me put >Let me guess: You have a scsi disk, not a IDE one? >While playing a little with NetBSD 0.9 on with a BT VLB scsi >controler, I was quite satisfied without any crash while my little box >with the wd controler crashes every two to four days on average. Actually, I have both: a Quantum ProDrive 425s with a BusLogic 747 EISA SCSI card, and two Conner CP3104 IDE drives. But my SCSI drive is only a couple weeks old. Before that I ran solely off my two IDE drives. Stability was still great, even then. I think your problem is that you're running 0.9, which suffers from the wd bug. The bug has finally been hacked (psuedo-fixed) in current (I run NetBSD-current) to timeout missed interrupts on the IDE drives and restart them. I used to get lockups on my IDE drives too, before this was fixed -- but I haven't had that problem on current since mid December. You might try upgrading to current (not a task for the novices or those with weak hearts ;-), or wait til NetBSD 1.0 (or whatever it will be called) comes out soon (wish I knew exactly when... this month? next?). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------