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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Big news drive = crash?
Date: 4 Aug 1996 05:44:56 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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To: jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust)

jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust) wrote:

> Is there an inode and/or file limit that would cause FreeBSD's kernel to
> panic? I'm running INN 1.4unoff4 and I've got a mix of 4 gig and 2 gig
> drives.

Which FreeBSD release?  Are you using mmap()?  Try running without
mmap() for testing.  Try upgrading to a newer version, i assume you
are using an AHA2940, and this driver had some rather serious problems
in 2.1R.

> Since I can't keep my news machine alive for even a day, please respond
> via email if at all possible.

(Posted and mailed.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)