Re: Stability?

> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:16:35 -0600
> From: Jim Smith <[email protected]>
> 
> 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]. 

These machines are fairly reliable and amazingly fast for a 550 MHz
machine.

> I know from reading the mail that X is problematic, but for other
> things [mailserver, ftp server] should it be OK?

Should be mostly fine, although there is a freaky bug that sometimes
makes programs crash if you spawn a lot of them in a short time.  It
sometimes hits me when doing a "make obj" in preparation of doing a
"make build", and almost never under any other circumstances.  And the
problem seems to disappear completely if the machine has been up for a
while.

If you need 24/7 availability, you're probably better of using
something else, but otherwise I'd say give it a shot.

> 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.  

Puked in what sense?

> Any other 'gotchas' to watch out for?

Not really.