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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) Subject: Re: 386BSD hangs Message-ID: <david.715826615@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.) References: <ZCO6TOH@desert.in-berlin.de> <david.715668854@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> <18bja8INNjt2@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 7 Sep 92 00:43:35 GMT Lines: 35 wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: >BTW, if you use 8MB+ systems, make sure you either use a patched I have 8MB. Please point me to the 'stability patch' you mentioned. I have other patches such as X386 and BUS Mouse patches I have to keep. >>Also, I have had problems where while swapping the IDE drive (which has As I reread that paragraph I realised I hadn't typed what I had been thinking! >Sounds like a bug in the SCSI driver...The pause is because it gets Here it goes again: I have had problems while having the system configured to mount a SCSI disk as /usr, and while booting from and swapping to an IDE. During heavy activity, causing large amounts of swapping such as compiling with 'gcc', the SCSI drive will go idle, and the IDE drive will pause for up to 10 seconds with the activity light (on the IDE) on and steady. The SCSI drive will find itself without any more IO requests, and will shortly after auto park itself. When the IDE comes back to life, it will be a gradual return to frenzies activity... Note that since I reinstalled 386BSD from scratch, this time *NOT* applying patches indescriminately, the problem appears to have gone. I now only have the X386 and BusMouse patches, (+ init patches, + des, + ps,kvm_mkdb,etc, + telnet kludge mode, and a few other non-kernel patches) >Lynne. Thanks. David. -- David Le Blanc : Email: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au : `Sort of a cross between a Jaguar CSIRO Division of Geomechanics, : and a freight train.' the Alien P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149 : in Alien^3.