Ultrix 4.1 on VAX 8800
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alan at shodha.enet.dec.com
Sat Mar 9 10:08:50 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar8.131235.8900 at news.cs.indiana.edu}, lwm at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Larry Meehan) writes:
} I'm looking for sites running Ultrix 4.1 on a VAX 8800. We have seen several
} disturbing problem since we upgraded to 4.1 and I'd like to compare notes
} with any sysadmins on similar systems.
Compare away...
}
} I have a test program which demonstrates what I take to be a bug in the
} signal handling code when the sleep() call is used. If you have an 8800
} running Ultrix 4.1 (or any other SMP Ultrix) I will be happy to mail you
} the program.
Ok, but what affect does the program have?
}
} Also, we don't seem to be able to use the DMB32 on our system without getting
} panics due to vaxbi errors. We have swapped out about everything on that BI
} to no avail. It appears NOT to be a hardware problem at this point.
I have a DMB32. I don't have anything connected to it though
and don't really plan to.
}
} This morning we got a panic freeing free gnode, but no disk errors were
} reported.
I haven't had any of those. I had one of the file system
panics while I was running V3.1, but I think it was related
to changing the data by too much.
} --
}
} Larry Meehan (lwm at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)
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