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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Occasional system hangs
Message-ID: <1992Dec12.073053.2721@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 07:30:53 GMT
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In article <jason.724071780@sorokin> jason@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Jason Andrade) writes:
>Well, im going to have fun when [more likely IF] i get X happening. Not.
>Oh, system uptime record so far is way behind your 12 hours and its a nominally
>'quiet' machine....
>
>>Time for more RAM I guess!
>
>Would be nice, but I'd prefer a patch to the kernel myself. :-)
This is the correct soloution. Basically, remove evrything in the kernel
you don't have installed in your machine.
RAM isn't a problem; I have run a sufficiently stripped kernel on a 640K
(no extended or expanded memory!) 386 Box with an NE2K card for periods
in excess of 4 days with moderate usage (20 Meg swap on a 30 Meg drive
and /usr remote mounted). Moderate usage is 3 users curious about it and
beating on the compiler. Obviously, no X 8-).
I think there are a number of questionable drivers; I also thing that the
stability is vastly improved after installing all patches (and the patches
to them and the mbuf/kern_* code posted here after the patchkit release).
The vast majority of the patches Nate is putting into the new patchkit are
stability patches and should improve things for heavy memory users.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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