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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreebBSD 2.0.5-R crashes every 2 DAYS!! Date: 23 Jul 1995 01:29:48 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3us8mc$17j@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3urlmb$7co@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3urlmb$7co@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>, Loren Koss <loren@beauty.ucsb.edu> wrote: >to hit ^C, then it will hang after the sendmail. I have to usually >reboot three times before it actually gets back to working. You have to reboot 3 times to get it working?? This spells one thing to my mind: Hardware problems. It may have run DOS before, but that doesn't prove much as we've already well established that FreeBSD will make mincemeat of marginal hardware where DOS simply doesn't use enough of the machine's capabilities to be worth mentioning (if you don't believe me, take a look at the relative performance of DOS and FreeBSD file I/O). >P.S. 2.0.5-R isn't very stable.. is it? Well, a number of people have reported excellent stability with it and our incredibly busy ftp.cdrom.com machine runs it with very good reliablity. This is not to say it's bugless, but stable? Sure, unless you're beating the heck out of it in interesting ways like BEST seems to be (and we're working very actively with them to fix each problem they find) but they're a fairly rare case. Jordan