From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 15 8: 3: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBA214BEF for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 08:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09077 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 May 1999 17:02:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 17:02:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199905151502.RAA09077@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vm_fault deadlock and PR 8416 ... NOT fixed! Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In list.freebsd-stable you wrote (13 May 1999 21:05:21 +0200): > The problem occurred again while running a memory intensive application (tripwire) on the system normally suffers these hangs this morning. It responds to pings, nothing else. I think it's time to try plan B again. > > Interestingly enough I was running the same application on another system with ~ 1/3 the clock speed (120 MHz v.s. 333 MHZ) and 63% of the memory (80 MB v.s. 128 MB). It's never hung slower system. Could it be that CPU speed contributes to this? Or could it be that the speed of the CPU in relation to the amount of memory installed on the system might be a factor? Did you try to set the RAM timings in your BIOS setup to more conservative values? Regards Oliver Fromme PS: Where did you buy that terminal that can display 380 characters per line? Awesome... ;-) -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message