> Now everything works as it should, but the unaligned access error looks
> pretty ugly and gives me a strange feeling, cause this should become a
> production server... any other hints on this?
>

Have you read this ?

http://netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/faq.html#unaligned

I've never tried mysql (at all) but I don't remember postgresql giving
me any problems on alpha.

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jht