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From: alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.1 on VAX 8800
Summary: Not the only one.
Message-ID: <2662@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 00:08:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.131235.8900@news.cs.indiana.edu}
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO.
Lines: 36

In article <1991Mar8.131235.8900@news.cs.indiana.edu}, lwm@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@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)


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