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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: CSLIP garbage collection bug?  FreeBSD 1.0e
Date: 1 Mar 1994 18:48:54 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2ko34c$ebv@thor.cs.umass.edu>,
Jim Doyle <doyle@cs.umass.edu> wrote:
>I've experienced a repeatable bug with FreeBSD 1.0e CSLIP.

The tty handling in FreeBSD has been improved alot since 1.0e.  I suggest
getting FreeBSD 1.1 (in beta-test now) when it's released and seeing it
it fixes your problems.

You'll want to upgrade to FreeBSD 1.1 anyway, due to the improved VM
system which is VERY nice.  I've bee beating on my box VERY heavily with
less than 10% swap space available for testing purposes since my last
reboot and so far it's run like a champ.  (Though it did kill off one
of my processes when things got a bit too tight, but that's preferrable
to panic'ing or become useless)

Here's my uptime.

11:47am  up 17 days, 18 hrs,  8 users,  load average: 0.40, 0.18, 0.17

On a heavily used box with lots of interactive/non-interactive processes
running all the time.  I'll probably reboot it before the weekend to
add another swap disk though. ;-)


Nate
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