Re: Stability?

* Jim Smith <[email protected]> [2008-02-12 15:16:35]:

> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Jim Smith <[email protected]>
> 
> 

I've not had any stability problems on several C-class machines
(C240, C360,) several B180L+'es and a 712/60.  These all had local
disks though, they were not using NFS.  It you're having issues,
I'd suspect the ram.  Mickey says there's some reboot bug on the
C360, but I have not seen it.  

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