Re: Stability?

On Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 23:24:21 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> 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.

I noticed this as well on a c3650.  'make obj' usually fails when
/usr/src is NFS mounted but I haven't seen any problems when the source
is stored on a local disk.

Maurice