Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 16:47:46 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem FOUND Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970405164743.00ac0524@etinc.com>
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At 01:29 PM 4/5/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >More likely, your RAM is flakey, and you are simply changing the >> >usage pattern such that the flakey RAM is no longer critical path. >> > >> >Any chance of you playing a game of "shuffle the SIMMs" to verify >> >this? >> >> As I said, 2 different machines were involved, so the likelihood of >> it being flakey ram is rather unlikely. Plus the same ram was used >> when it works (just added another bank)..... > >The same code was not necessarily loaded into the same spot. If there >was more RAM, the code exhibiting the problem could have been loaded >into the additional RAM instead of the flakey RAM. This would depend >highly on the exact usage patter by processes invoked during install, >including, but not limited to, their invocation order, etc.. I think you missed the "2 different machines" part.... > >There is no evidence, short of a shuffle, that will guarantee you >that the problem is resolved, not masked by the additional RAM. > >You will need to do a full shuffle so that an 8M situation without the >possibly flakey RAM is also tested (and verified to fail). > > > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. > >
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