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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Is NetBSD-current stable? Date: 27 Feb 94 03:41:59 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 32 Message-ID: <michaelv.762320519@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <2knsp8$8g@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <2knsp8$8g@sundog.tiac.net> timj@tiac.net (Tim Jackson) writes: >Hi, > I have been running NetBSD-current (Feb 14) for a while and I >have been getting all three of my test systems to hang. It seems >that the boxes just stop dead. I have two 486/66s and 386/33 doing >networking services such as unix shell services, sendmail, NFS, named >and more. I can't get more than 2 days outta of them before they just >hang. All three are running NE2000s. Does anyone else run into these >problems? Is anyone in the NetBSD core team interested in stabilizing >the NetBSD os. I have made two postings before today. I think this >is a kernel problem. It may be a memory leak or a device driver that >is stuck in a loop. I would think the latter is more credible. Any >hope, suggestions, questions or flames would be a great help. My current system is ten times as stable as when I was running 0.9. I've had uptimes much longer than that. Current is extremely stable as long as you have a properly config'd and built kernel. Weird or inappropriate kernel configurations can drop the reliability factor quite quickly. However, you're posting in the wrong place. It's stated quite often that the correct place for discussion on current is the current-users maillist. Send your message to current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu. To get subscribed send email to majordomo@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------