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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:09:35 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug
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On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:28:07PM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> I've been complaining about this problem since January.

The 'dying daemons bug', not the 'inetd crashes/gives "junk pointer"
messages' bug?

Let's list the facts we have here:
* Problem first spotted in January

* Problem occur on my PPro box with the combinations
	- 64MB RAM/128MB swap
	- 64MB RAM/256 MB swap (much less frequently than with 128MB swap)
	- 80MB RAM/256 MB swap (seems more frequent than with
	  64MB/256MB, but I have not recorded how it behaves, so I
	  can't really say)
	I've got a PPro 200 (Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x617  Stepping=7)
* Problem occur on a P200MMX (Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x543  Stepping=3)
	with 96MB RAM and 200MB swap
* Problem has never occured on a P133 (unknown stepping) with 24MB RAM
	and 64MB swap.
* Problem occur with both IDE and a bunch of different SCSI cards
	(thus it seems we can eliminate the disk system)

I know of three pieces of hardware I have that I've not yet gotten
confirmation that other doesn't have:
(1) AWE64 soundboard
(2) TV card
(3) Network card - a PCI ed (though I changed to this later than first
    seeing the bugs, I think...)

Eivind.

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