Re: MicroVAX 3100/20 is apocalyptically slow even with 32MB of RAM

Daniel Seagraves <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:22:12 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Apr 27, 2026, at 1:19 PM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> "Interesting"... Its possible that there was a refactor sometime
> between NetBSD 4 and 9 that moved NetBSD/vax to some MI driver which
> does not play well with the something.
>=20
> Are you setup to netboot the system? It might be interesting to
> compare the performance with the disk controller eliminated from the
> path...

Yes, easily; That=E2=80=99s how I=E2=80=99ve been doing the installs. =
I=E2=80=99ll add that to the list of things to test.