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>
>I have been running this on my 4 processor pentium pro machine
>(ALR quad-6) since early this morning... did a kernel build with
>-j install (after a make clean) which took 3.00 minutes exactly
>(plus a fraction of a second.. :) ) Unzipped 3 gigs worth of
>files (gzipped they shrink to 350mb or so) and so forth. So far,
>no hangs. Note that I use the BT958 SCSI adapter, and an EtherExpress
>Pro 100 ethernet interface. I will beat on the ethernet after lunch
>to see if it will stay solid... I had run 2.1.97 for 6 days non-stop
>as of this morning when I rebooted, with no crashes or hangs of any
>kind, running a *heavy* multi-threaded application plus the normal
>user stuff I do all the time...
>
>so far, so good...
>
>If you have other things to test, let me know. This machine seems
>to be a "bad actor" due to 4 processors, which seem to be able to
>excite bugs that 2 processor machines don't notice... I'm par-
>ticularly interested in the eepro100.c code to see how it responds,
>as it had some serious problems in 2.1.96'ish kernels with large
>file transfers and NFS going on at the same time...
>
>From other reports here it looks like the NE2000 driver is 'troubled'. I have a
a Tulip based PCI adapter in a machine at work which I will pull, swap it with
the NE2000, leave everything else the same and run my tests.
I'll be in touch.
Steve
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