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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with INN/adaptec2940
Date: 16 Nov 1995 06:33:58 GMT
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In article <48bk0f$pkq@zebu.serv.net>, zeno@serv.net says...
>
>I'm still unable to keep FreeBSD reliably running with the adaptec
>2940 (running INN 1.4unoff2.)  and I am looking for any hints.
>
> There's 32MB of physical ram , and about 160M of swap
>space allocated. It frequently crashes (1-2 times per day). We rarely
>get more than 10 nnrpd's running at once.  The crashes seem to be definitely
>related to periods of high disk access. (du -a on the news spool
>will reliably crash it, as will cc)

  What version of FreeBSD?

  How does it crash (hang, panic, etc.)?


Tom