Subject: Re: Sun 3/50 and -current
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/27/2002 19:08:48
David Brownlee said:
> A little, but its not going to set the world alight :)
Every little bit helps. :-)
> Because of the specific hardware limitations we should probably
> have {GENERIC,INSTALL}_3_50 configurations.
For now, the INSTALL kernel works.
> There are various hashes used in the networking and filesystems
> which could probably be better tuned for minimal memory machines,
> or in some cases conditionally eliminated.
That is a good thought.
> I would certainly expect to see the 3/60 outperform the 3/50
> even with the same amount of RAM. Whether it will be
> noticible on your workload.... Going to use thttpd? :)
NetBSD/sun3 1.2 and Apache actually worked fairly well. Just don't bring
any CGI into the mix. :-)
> Bugger, I just ditched a dead ss2 which would probably have had a
> matching PSU.
The good news there is that www.memoryx.com has SS1 power supplies for
$18,00US. And they also have 4 meg SIMMs.
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