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From: andys@genesis.UUCP (a.b.sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIX PC Problems
Message-ID: <359@genesis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 17:23:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: genesis.359
Posted: Mon Jul 27 17:23:50 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 00:49:39 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, NJ
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Summary: Swap space was not the problem


There has been much discussion about increasing swap space on the
7300/3B1.  As a 3B1 user of over a year, I question the need.  The
problem alluded to in several of the postings was not a lack of swap
space but a bug in the kernel that caused the system to panic when
running uucico *WHILE RELATIVELY IDLE!!!!*  This has been fixed, and
the fixdisk is available from the hotline.  The symptom is
unexplained crashes (with uucico or uusched active) in the middle of
the night.  4:00 AM was a favorite time, leading it to be called
"The 4:00 AM crash bug".  Get more swap space if you need it, by all
means, but don't waste your disk if you don't need it.  Don't forget
that this system is demand paged.
-- 
andy sherman / at&t bell laboratories (medical diagnostic systems)
room 2h-097 / 480 red hill road / middletown, nj 07748
(201) 615-5708 / andys@shlepper.ATT.COM
...The views and opinions are my own.  Who else would want them?