From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 21:37:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c014.sfo.cp.net (c014-h020.c014.sfo.cp.net [209.228.12.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 035CD37B422 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 13674 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2000 21:37:15 -0700 Date: 20 Aug 2000 21:37:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20000821043715.13673.cpmta@c014.sfo.cp.net> X-Sent: 21 Aug 2000 04:37:15 GMT Received: from [24.95.99.27] by mail.valuedata.net with HTTP; 20 Aug 2000 21:37:15 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org From: dchance@valuedata.net X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.7.0.11 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is about as stable as windows98 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Another guy and I have been having similar issues > with our MB's, my turns out to be a problem with DMA > and the VIA chipset. It's currently a known issue and > is being worked on. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. > FWIW, my box reboots at least 2-3 times a day and its > supposed to be our network server :P....has VERY little > load (nat, ipfw). Btw, it was late when i wrote this, but for more info (in case anyone else is having this problem) check the following link. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18335 I've been skimming messages (not at work, so i'm checking mail over the web....200+ emails, ugh :)), and the PR says that (IIRC) it only affects certain versions of the chipset, meaning that it may work, or it may not. Also, it says that turning off DMA fixes this problem on some boxes, on mine, it doesn't....so you may have luck with that till they find a fix. hopefully this isn't beating a dead horse, this will be my last mail on the subject unless you want to talk about it privately. Thanks, Daryl Chance ValueData, LLC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message