Re: Stability?

So am I the only one that ran hppa for years as a firewall??

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:24:21PM +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.
> 
> 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.