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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet3!shovey From: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1R stability? Date: 14 Dec 1995 12:45:06 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4ap68i$nm9@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <DJCq3w.yq@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet3.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Scott Hazen Mueller (scott@zorch.sf-bay.org) wrote: : I was running just the kernel from 2.1.0-951026-SNAP for a few weeks, and : noticed some stability problems. When I reverted to 2.0.5R, they went away, : so I'm inclined to feel it was a software issue. The problems themselves were : a series of mysterious crashes that left no traces in the logs (besides the : boot messages, of course). I'm not saying that SNAP was unstable, though it : would be reassuring if that were a known problem. I do wonder if the : combination of 2.0.5R system (e.g. shared libc) and 2.1 kernel was the actual : cause, perhaps a parameter mismatch between libraries and kernel. I had problems too unless I compiled the kernel with MFS I have no idea why. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net