[1076] in Release_7.7_team
Re: I'm out 8/4-8/10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Oakland)
Tue Aug 5 11:18:06 1997
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, saurons@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 01:58:54 EDT."
<199708030558.BAA24467@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 11:18:02 EDT
From: Andy Oakland <sao@MIT.EDU>
> * Sparc 4 clients are freezing with some regularity.
> [...]
> People who are
> seeing regular freezing are encouraged to test the
> 3.4a.patches.5 cache manager by copying
> /mit/afsuser/dist/3.4a.patches.5/sun4x_55/root.client/usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs.nonfs.o
> to /kernel/fs/afs and rebooting. (You have to do the change
> over again after taking a patch release, incidentally.) If
> it seems to help anyone's machine, I'll put it in the 8.1.9
> patch release.
I've been running the patches since Friday night (Aug 1st) and my machine
hasn't paniced once. Previously it was panicing on the order of once a day.
I'd say, YES! By all means get this in the 8.1.9 patch release.
:Andy
