Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!sfmag!sfsup!mtune!icus!lenny From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Which UNIX pc kernel is better? 3.51 or 3.51a? Message-ID: <380@icus.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 05:05:10 GMT Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY Lines: 35 Which kernel has the "net-at-large" found to be more reliable for a system with heavy UUCP traffic? For some reason recently my system has been hanging with the "slow-down-and-die" syndrome, random panic's, etc.. I've been running 3.51a for quite some time, and just recently this has been happening again? What could I have done? I used to be able to keep my machine running 24 hrs/day, 7 days/week for over a month before rebooting normally. Now I have to reset the machine on the average twice every 3 days... I've been getting: panic: addr fault in kernel panic: page fault in kernel Sounds like a bad kernel to me? Phone driver? Window Driver? Or all three? $ ls -l /UNIX3.51a /unix -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 168915 Mar 26 22:01 /UNIX3.51a* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 168915 Mar 26 22:01 /unix* $ sum /UNIX3.51a 45337 165 /UNIX3.51a Help! [I wish the source was available to this machine? Does anyone know if it is?] -Lenny -- US MAIL : Lenny Tropiano, ICUS Computer Group IIIII CCC U U SSS PO Box 1 I C U U S Islip Terrace, New York 11752 I C U U SS PHONE : (516) 968-8576 [H] (516) 582-5525 [W] I C U U S TELEX : 154232428 [ICUS] IIIII CCC UUU SSS AT&T MAIL: ...attmail!icus!lenny UUCP : ...{mtune, ihnp4, boulder, talcott, sbcs, bc-cis}!icus!lenny