Re: Stability?

Greetings,

I'm running on a A180C (staccato). It'll happily build the kernel 
and a lot of things from pkgsrc. 

The gotchas on the A180C I have is the date+time, it gets amnesia 
each boot and greets you with:

[..snip!..]
bootpath: 8/16/5.6 class=1 flags=c0<autoboot,autosearch> hpa=0xffd06000 spa=0x0 
io=0x12000
root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
WARNING: clock lost 14083 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

The other semi-gotcha is that for disk IO it's very slow compared to
hockey-pucks on the same machine (dual boot off two disks). obsd gets
around 620kb/sec and hockey-pucks around 1.2mb/sec. Given that it's
narrow se, that's not "that" bad and it's still highly usable for 
tooling around and building random things. Also interrupt servicing 
during heavy IO is a killer. Don't forget to include softdep for 
your file system. Every speed-bump can count. C3600's potentially
have a hell of a lot more IO bandwidth. Haven't tried obsd on
my c3750's so I can't speak authoratively. I do seem to recall they
only run in 32bit mode though. Not a problem for the A180C though
because it's only pa1.1 7300lc.

Also, this may not effect you but I've had problems trying to get
the ethernet card in the GSC slot working. Your allegro doesn't 
have GSC so that should be a moot point.

-- 
Alastair Boyanich <[email protected]>


On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:51:18 -0500
Rob Sciuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

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