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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 1996 18:29:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
To:        Tim Bach <timb49@Northwest.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Various problem's with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960219182726.1181A-100000@nervosa.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0tofDV-0004IhC@Rogue.Northwest.com>

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On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Tim Bach wrote:
> 1) I don't know if it's really losing memory or what but basicly everytime i start up a bunch of stuff that consumes all my memory my swap usage get's high which makes sense..Though when i kill practicly everything my swap usage is still high.

Exactly, the program is kept in the swap, so that recurrent calls to it 
can be recalled from swap. Eventually it is purged from the swap, or 
overwritten by another program image.

> 2) Problem's detecting some internal modem's.Basicly i can't get my zoom on anything but com1..Even though it work's fine on all the other comport's in dwin95 even linux..

Have you compiled a custom kernel?

> 3) Enough time's to be a bit irritating i will get a bunch of garbage on the screen when connected and that i can't access the modem..Not to mention the fact i can't kill the process that has the modem open..This is on a external modem which i can just turn on and off and it should be fine..No problem's in linux,dos,win95

Sounds like an interrupt conflict to me.

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