Re: Stability of netbsd-10 on real hardware?

John Klos <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:23:10 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I've managed to get netbsd-10 installed running under qemu-system-m68k,
> which emulates a Apple Macintosh Quadra 800. Building a few random things
> and running some random stuff, I've tripped over a bunch of little stability
> issues, and I'm wondering if these are as a result of the emulation, netbsd,
> or perhaps compilers. MacOS 8.1 seems stable, although I'd imagine that
> netbsd stresses the emulation far more. I've seen internet breadcrumbs
> saying that Linux is also stable.

I'm not running with these:

> options MAXDSIZE=268435456
> options DIAGNOSTIC
> options DEBUG
> options LOCKDEBUG

I'm running NetBSD 10.0_BETA from 1-Jan-2023 with a GENERIC kernel with 
DJMEMCMAX and MAC68K_MEMSIZE=264 on a Quadra 650 with 264 megs of memory.

I haven't seen anything that looks like any sort of intermittent issues, 
and the system has built lots of packages:

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/10.0_2022Q4/All/

This includes zstd, but I haven't tried cmake and friends yet.

What's the date of tree from which your NetBSD was built?

John