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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Big news drive = crash? Date: 4 Aug 1996 05:44:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4u1dco$1gt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jon-2907961103340001@jons7500.vc.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E In-Reply-To: <jon-2907961103340001@jons7500.vc.net> To: jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust) jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust) wrote: > Is there an inode and/or file limit that would cause FreeBSD's kernel to > panic? I'm running INN 1.4unoff4 and I've got a mix of 4 gig and 2 gig > drives. Which FreeBSD release? Are you using mmap()? Try running without mmap() for testing. Try upgrading to a newer version, i assume you are using an AHA2940, and this driver had some rather serious problems in 2.1R. > Since I can't keep my news machine alive for even a day, please respond > via email if at all possible. (Posted and mailed.) -- 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. ;-)