Re: 9.1 unusable on cobalt qube 2

On Sun, 2020-11-29 at 10:34 +0000, Mark Kirby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed netbsd 9.1 on my cobalt Qube 2 but this release
> seems very unstable on this machine.
>
> If i try to untar pkgsrc.tar.gz while in an ssh session it will churn
> away for some time but then the ssh session stops responding. The
> disk
> will be active for several hours before the machine finally drops off
> the network and serial. When looking at the output of the tar command
> I can see it only got as far as was displayed in the ssh terminal yet
> the disk carried on being accessed for several more hours.
>
>
>
> The machine has 16Mb of physical ram, in the correct slot, and 3GB of
> swap.

I recently installed 9.0 on my Qube 2, and initially it kept hanging
due to lack of memory, as someone on this list pointed out.

After adding 1GB of swap and upgrading to 256MB I had no problem with
compiling and installing, and it has been running stable ever since,
sitting at my bookshelf and hosting a small website at
http://www.petrvz.net/cobalt-qube-2/

So I would guess that lack of memory is the problem here.

Peter

> Could this be a bad disk or have others experienced something
> similar?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark