SS20 run 2.0BETA w/4X100Mhz HyperSPARC & 320MB RAM. I also have an SS5
run OpenBSD 3.6 as a firewall (pf rules!).

The SS20 is going to be a webserver/database for my collections of junk.

BTW, can some please tell me how to setup the system so that make
always uses -j5 on all builds of anything?

I have read all the docs, mk.conf, etc..

Thanks,
Sean

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:14:05 -0600, Tillman Hodgson
<tillman@seekingfire.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:05:54AM -0700, Sean McKay wrote:
> > Just an informal poll here...I just setup NetBSD 1.6.2 on my ss20 and
> > am having fun setting it up. I'm curious what others are using it for
> > on this hardware...I've got 320MB of RAM and and decent HD -- it seems
> > a bit slow though. I'm going to put some web pages up on it and see
> > what kind of performance I can pull out of it...
> 
> I a SS10 with dual Ross HyperSparc 90's running NetBSD 2.0_BETA with the
> GENERIC.MP kernel and a 4.3GB Seagate ST34520N of unknown origin from
> the parts box.
> 
> I'm using it as my Kerberos domain controller (KDC). For that role it's
> entirely over-kill: The single 36MHz CPU I had in it originally was more
> than sufficient to the task. I'm thinking of adding other
> authentication/authoriziation services to the box, though I want to be
> careful not to introduce anything that would potentially affect the
> integrity of the KDC.
> 
> Some simple benchmark timings I took:
> 
> With the original boot prom and 36MHz CPU:
> [root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh tools kernel=SURYA
> real    588m37.399s
> user    476m0.142s
> sys     92m27.577s
> 
> With the new 2.25 boot prom and the dual HyperSparcs at 90MHz and a MP
> kernel:
> [root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh tools kernel=SURYA
> real    357m40.961s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     32537722m48.701s
> [root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh -j4 tools kernel=SURYA
> real    307m2.601s
> user    14316867m19.494s
> sys     0m0.025s
> [root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh -j4 tools distribution
> real    1700m51.825s
> user    0m0.005s
> sys     27036148m17.375s
> 
> -T
> 
> --
> "The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how
>  yellow everything looks."
>     -- Randall Jarrell, _The Taste of the Age_
>