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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with File System Panics
Date: 7 Nov 1995 23:46:36 +0100
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Jeff McElroy <jeff@conterra.com> wrote:
>
>I have a FreeBSD machine panicing every few hours w/ INN under heavy
>load.
>
>All panics have been in file system code, usually on the thread of a
>ufs_lookup.   Drives are Seagate 4GB SCSI Barracuda with Adaptec 2940
>running at first 2.0.5 and then 7/16 snap.    

I'm not sure if this would cure your problems, but perhaps you should
wait a couple of days (or exactly: until the day before yesterday),
and install 2.1 on it.  The ahc driver has undergone several improve-
ments.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)