[ On Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 10:35:42 (+0100), Thomas Pornin wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: light web browser
>
> If this is NetBSD 1.6, look at the kernel boot messages. If there is
> "sw flushing" in it, you may have the problem. "hw flushing" is ok.
> NetBSD 1.5.x did not trigger the problem.

did not trigger the problem as often

even 1.3.x still was nowhere near as stable on such machines.

(rumours are that some folks even had problems with SunOS, so perhaps
there's a design flaw in the cache, and certain patterns of usage just
make it fail)


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