Re: OBSD releases (versions) performance evaluation (speed, resource requirements) - older hardware, etc.

Thanks to those who replied.  I renew my suggestion for performance comparisons
of releases running on baseline hardware; for sparc, I suggest using the 'IPX'
as a sort of 'canary' and minimal expected runner.

As for my multicasting issue, I backported the PIM code from Aug. 2004 (or so)
into 3.2 (on sparc) and it is now running; I expect to be able to manage any
issues as my needs are basic and low bandwidth.

Michael Grigoni wrote:

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> In order to peer with a site on Internet2 for native multicast, I have been
> advised that I must run PIM-SM.  I have built a PIM-DM routing daemon 
> which works, but I get a kernel trap (0x07) after a random amount of time.

No longer happens, since PIM support is now in the kernel ;)

> I see that PIM support was added in release 3.7, but that release differs
> so much from 3.2 that backporting will be difficult. Because I am running
> on old, slow hardware, with minimal RAM, and have a  very customized
> configuration and lots of in-house programs, migrating to 3.7 or later 
> would be a huge project.

See above.

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Regards,

Michael