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From: macwhiz@phoebe.accinet.net (Rob Levandowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 Driver Status
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:29:36 -0400
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In article <862337683.386680@aldan>,
mi@ALDAN.ziplink.net..remove-after-`net' wrote:

> AFAIK, the bug was only apeearing under _heavy_ load, for which
> you need several high-speed SCSI devices (disks, most likely).

It does indeed appear under heavy load; I found that out the hard way while
connecting my FreeBSD news server to an EMC Symmetrix high-end disk array. 
The Symmetrix has 1Gb cache RAM, so it seems to the computer like a really
big RAM disk in terms of response speeds.  It was really unhappy with
2.2.1-RELEASE.

> Hopefully, someone more knowledgebale then I am will tell how to
> patch the kernel sources of 2.2.1-RELEASE to get the bug fixed.

Update yourself to 2.2-970422-RELENG.  It works great on my system.

-- 
Robert Levandowski
macwhiz@phoebe.accinet.net