Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:49:25 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <15021.46309.150521.925816@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <3AAC4E83.2C281B90@babbleon.org> References: <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org> <3AAC4E83.2C281B90@babbleon.org>
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> PS: In my experience, though FreeBSD has lots of advantages, it is > *much* less stable than Linux. It's crashed -way- more than Linux ever > did; more even than Windows does at work (of course I push Windows a lot > less). And I've had it lose files a couple of times when it came back > up after a hard crash like that. > > Is this at all normal? > Is it at all normal for folks with laptops? In the last 4 years on my laptop, I've had 3 crashes, and two of them were related to running the machine completely out of memory. Newer versions of FreeBSD have patches that Matt Dillon wrote to fix these kind of crashes, but I wasn't then (nor am now) running a version with this fix. FreeBSD *rarely* if ever crashes on properly configured, correctly functioning hardware. If you mis-configure things such as VMWARE which get very cozy with the kernel and hardware, you will see crashes. My very strong suspicion is that you're boxed is misconfigured. Unfortunately, Linux may make it easier for you to configure your hardware correctly, so in some respects that it's difficult to configure your hardware correctly could be considered a 'bug' in FreeBSD. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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