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#! rnews 1742 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.mrtc.org!news.he.net!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!ix.netcom.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.109.159.3!news.gtn.com!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!www.punkt.de!not-for-mail From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: INN 1.5.1 w/MMAP OK on FreeBSD-2.2? Date: 2 Apr 1997 10:43:01 GMT Organization: WEB Internet Services Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <01bc3f52$c414d8e0$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> References: <5havfd$hd@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <5hpuur$5q8@news.webspan.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hugo09.ticsoft.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:31739 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38301 Gary Palmer <gpalmer@webspan.net> wrote in <5hpuur$5q8@news.webspan.net>... > In article <5havfd$hd@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>, > ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) writes: > > I'm just about to install an INN-1.5.1 system on a FreeBSD server > > (running 2.2-RELEASE, soon to be 2.2.1-RELEASE). Does anyone know > > if the past problems with mmap on FreeBSD are now fixed? I'd like > > to know if I can safely set active and DBZ to use MMAP (and whether > > the various shared active patches for nnrpd will work). > > MMAP is indeed fixed in 2.2. I've been running with -current (and > later the 2.2 branch after the branch was made) on my news server for > several months with no kernel problems (just drives dying). Be sure, to get 2.2.1, though. There were several people reporting some 'minor' bugs in the AH2940 driver, affecting heavily loaded systems in 2.2. Patrick