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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreebBSD 2.0.5-R crashes every 2 DAYS!!
Date: 23 Jul 1995 01:29:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3urlmb$7co@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>,
Loren Koss <loren@beauty.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>to hit ^C, then it will hang after the sendmail.  I have to usually 
>reboot three times before it actually gets back to working.

You have to reboot 3 times to get it working??  This spells one thing
to my mind:  Hardware problems.  It may have run DOS before, but that
doesn't prove much as we've already well established that FreeBSD
will make mincemeat of marginal hardware where DOS simply doesn't use
enough of the machine's capabilities to be worth mentioning (if you
don't believe me, take a look at the relative performance of DOS
and FreeBSD file I/O).
 
>P.S. 2.0.5-R isn't very stable.. is it?

Well, a number of people have reported excellent stability with it and
our incredibly busy ftp.cdrom.com machine runs it with very good
reliablity.  This is not to say it's bugless, but stable?  Sure, unless
you're beating the heck out of it in interesting ways like BEST seems
to be (and we're working very actively with them to fix each problem they
find) but they're a fairly rare case.

					Jordan