Re: Performance degradation over time on VAX...

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:45:41 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Jun 29, 2026, at 12:08=E2=80=AFPM, Ken Wellsch =
<[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> ... I also wanted to try testing on some real hardware.
>=20
> In this case, a vaxstation 4000/60 and a zuluscsi card.
>=20
> The simH testing I did was MSCP disk path, while this hardware is SCSI =
based.
>=20
> The 6.x releases and to a lesser extent, the 5.x releases, I had to =
give
> up booting them.  The boot loader was just too slow to load. (I left =
one
> of the 6.x run while I got lunch - it was still loading on my return)

The **bootloader** got that much slower???

-- thorpej