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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: FreebBSD 2.0.5-R crashes every 2 DAYS!!
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 22:49:28 GMT
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I had regular system crashes with FreeBSD 2.0R (but never DOS or Windows)
until I switched the cache from write-back to write-through.  Since
then, I've had remarkably few problems.

                                - Tim Kientzle

Loren Koss <loren@beauty.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>Every couple of days, I'll be working on my machine, have probably 2 
>telnet sessions active (plus the console), an suddenly, the machine just 
>dies.  Strangely enough, I can log onto a different virtual terminal as 

>P.S. 2.0.5-R isn't very stable.. is it?
    Hmmmm... 2.0R seems pretty stable to me... maybe you should downgrade?
<grin>