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[arachne] Re: Google crashes Arachne 1.9

From: "John Hupp" <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 16:00:52 -0400

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As best as I can figure at this point, the problem was likely confined to that particular hardware platform. With 16MB of RAM installed, it did not do well with only 128KB level 2 cache installed on the DTK 486 motherboard. Upgrading to 256KB of level 2 cache would probably have made the problem go away.

--John Hupp

----- Original Message ----- From: John Hupp To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 11:14 AM Subject: [arachne] Google crashes Arachne 1.9

I've got Arachne 1.9 up and running now on a museum piece (486DX2-66, 16 MB). After Blair Campbell and Eric Auer from the FreeDOS project told me that Arachne has TCP/IP built in, my next problem was to figure out why TCP/IP would not initialize under DHCP/BOOTP (or why under a static setup Arachne would fail to connect). It turns out that this problem was likely due to the packet driver Arachne installed for a generic network card with a Winbond chip. I put aside the Winbond card, installed and configured a 3Com card and their packet driver, and Arachne loaded right up.

In testing so far, Arachne successfully handles its home page at arachne.cz, pages linked to that site, yahoo.com, an image-laden page at southbendtribune.com, and others. But the seemingly simple and sparse page at google.com locks up arachne and causes a system halt with messages like: dos mem corrupt, first_mcb=0267 PANIC: before 4a: MCB chain corrupted System halted

Anyone know what's at issue here?

--John Hupp

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[arachne] Re: Google crashes Arachne 1.9

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