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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN / Adaptec 2940 weirdness.
Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:17:15 GMT
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In article <47f583$4jg@zebu.serv.net>, zeno@serv.net says...
>
>I've been trying to get inn 1.4 (unoff2) to run reliably for some time now. 
>it's running on a P120 with an Adaptec 2940 controller. It had been crashing
>every day or two, and acting generally bizarre (as an example, expire would
>rarely complete without crashing.)
>
> After some suggestions from this newsgroup, I recompiled without mmap().
>It's now crashing 3-4 times per day.

  The mmap stuff is likely bugy, but only sees to cause active file corruption.

>The only thing I can conclude is that the 2940 driver doesn't totally work.
>
>Any hints? Does anyone have a system reliably running inn with a 2940?

  I don't follow how you conclude that is the 2940 driver.

  I'm running a news server on -stable with a 2940.  News load is moderate (100,000+ 
articles accepted, 200,000+ offered, 90,000+ articles fed out).  INN (without mmap 
support) works flawlessly.  However, the system doesn't.  It panics every two days.  
In my case, I suspect hardware.

Tom