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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] - kernal hangs on disk wait
Date: 7 Jan 1995 20:16:03 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana
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In article <3emga3$rb8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Alec Habig <ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu> wrote:
>Just wanted to repost this, as while the cache problem earlier reported seems
>to be all in hardware, the machine hanging randomly when I try to do anything
>reasonably intense sucks bigtime, and is certainly a FreeBSD software problem.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In your original article you stated that OS/2 also experienced the same
behavior, and given the sad state of PC hardware, I'm am almost positive
it's NOT a FreeBSD problem but a hardware problem, especially considering
that you said your machine works when the cache is disabled.
The reason it worked in the past is because some of the fixes in FreeBSD
caused the hardware bug to not manifest itself, but now that the VM system
has changed it is now ticking the hardware bug.
Nate
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