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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Attempted summary (Was Re: UNIX on a PC clone)
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In article <19o9fhINNplu@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>In article <1992Sep22.220331.21122@terminator.cc.umich.edu> pauls@umich.edu writes:
>>
>>Furthermore the system has crashed so far only for understandable reasons.   
>>That is, only while compiling, and then as far as I can tell because the  
>>installation's default swap quantity is too low.  That's an important  
>>thing to note for beginning installers -- DON'T INSTALL IT UNTIL YOU HAVE  
>>FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE SWAP BIGGER OR YOU WILL MAKE LOTS MORE WORK FOR  
>>YOURSELF LATER, AND/OR JUST END UP REINSTALLING.  Just something to keep  
>>in mind.
>
>Just a note -- we've been running the standard system (5MB swap space)
>recompiling the system, X windows, running debuggers, the BSD command set,
>and so forth and have not had to raise the swap space at all.
>
>We've done this on 386 and 486 systems with all manner of controller and
>drive types and all amounts of memory (2MB, 3MB, 8MB, 16MB, 20MB).
>
>While upping swap space may appear to solve the problem, it is questionable
>whether it is actually dealing with the REAL problem, or is just masking
>it in some way.
>
>I suggest that we start looking more closely at these situations, to 
>deterministically localize this problem.

Lynne:

	I don't know about how connected to the network you and Bill are,
but I have heard it said that you prefer floppies and tapes over FTP
uploads.  If true, you may not have a copy of my most recent patch
installation stuff.

	Several of the patches distributed contain changes to the mbuf
allocation code, and to the ability to read from /dev/drum; one in
particular claims to fix a problem with "shrinking stack".

	If you can tell me what I need to do to get you a copy, I'll
send one.


					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@npd.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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