hi,

> Hey,
> 
>> What it does not do is run very well.  If I start either a lot of network
>> traffic and/or disk traffic (say untar a file across nfs) we will
>> hang and/or crash.
> 
> 
> this is similar to what I am experiencing on my 9500 with g4 card.
> 
> is it mchk ?
> 
> last time that it crashed I could type "trace" in the debugger and I see
> that it was a series of ffs_ syscalls wher it crashed, btw.
> 
> runing my older kernel, non-g4 aware, no cache, not optimized (compiled
> by michael in from the 2.99 series) seems to be much more stable. But
> speed sucks.

it was sometime october 2004 within the 2.99.9 (!) series that it stopped
working on my G4. it took a time to figure out that optimizing the kernel is
a work around (tho doesn't remove the 'bug')...

> Btw, I wonder, I cna't remove the cache on my motherboard, it is
> soldered. DOes it get disabled automatically, or is this kernel running
> the g4 without its backside cache but still using the onboard cache? I
> see no cache line in dmesg though.