Re: Stability?

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jim Smith wrote:
> What's the stability like on hppa?  I just acquired a c3600 [552 MHz
> processor, 1024 Mb RAM, 18GB and 9Gb HD, CDROM], and loaded OpenBSD on
> it [I have experience with i386, sparc and sparc64 with various BSD's,
> so hppa is new to me].
>
> I know from reading the mail that X is problematic, but for other
> things [mailserver, ftp server] should it be OK?
>
> I thought I might give it a stress test by building a couple of simple
> ports [bash, dxpc] and it went well.
>
> I thought I'd stress it more by compiling a kernel.  It puked on
> untarring/ungzipping the source files.  Guess I won't do that.
>
> Any other 'gotchas' to watch out for?


I'm running on HP9K K200 2cpu's, 512MBRam.  Tcl/Tk, SQLite, PostgreSQL and 
some ISC software (DHCP/BIND) all compiled to completion ... and while I 
was futzing around a couple of weeks back, trying to get some LVD 
drives to work using a bus adapter, I've compiled the kernel, and all 
seems well with a 4.2 snapshot ... so far, so good, but YMMV ...

[hppa.controlq.com:161>>% uname -a
OpenBSD hppa.controlq.com 4.2 xyzzy#0 hppa
[hppa.controlq.com:162>>% uptime
  3:48PM  up 25 days, 23 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.08, 0.08

HTH,
Rob Sciuk