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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 1997 23:36:56 +0300
From:      Antti-Pekka Liedes <apl@mail.cs.hut.fi>
To:        Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: serious instability with -current kernel
Message-ID:  <19970902233656.44009@hutcs.cs.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199709022031.OAA00894@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>; from Steve Passe on Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 02:31:01PM -0600
References:  <19970902230144.44442@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> <199709022031.OAA00894@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>

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On Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 02:31:01PM -0600, Steve Passe wrote:
> Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running FreeBSD-current on my Tyan Tomcat IIID dual pentium box, and
> > I've lately had serious instability problems.  The latest working kernel I
> > have was build on Aug 11th, all kernels after that crash randomly after
> > about 2 minutes of use.  There's no error message or anything, just plain
> > reboot.
> 
> I presume this is an SMP kernel?
> 

Yep.

> ---
> >  The problem might be network related, it hasn't crashed if I
> > haven't had any network connections yet.  The Aug 11th kernel works fine.
> > I made world from fresh sources today.
> > 
> > Other hardware includes AHA-3940U, Matrox Millennium, and SMC EtherPower
> > 10/100.
> 
> is this using the de driver?  I think others have reported problems with
> it recently.  Any chance of using another network card/driver?
> 

Yes, I'm using the de-driver.  I don't have any other network cards but
three etherpowers, so no choice there... I think my troubles started after
a few changes to TCP-sections of the kernel a couple of days after Aug
11th.  Back then I thought I maybe just had a broken src-tree but the
problem is still here.

> 
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