Subject: Re: Sun 3/50 and -current
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: current-users
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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