No, it was just a potshot. I didn't follow the whole thread so I didn't 
know it was CIA related. I've tried pretty much everything on my 264DP, 
but it is impossible to get it stable enough for production use with SMP 
kernels and it is just barely stable enough with a uniprocesssor kernel.
It feels like a waste of resources having that extra CPU sitting there 
doing nothing.

I'm getting to the point where I'm looking for a Tru64 SMP license to use 
instead of NetBSD as there seems to be to many bugs lurking within the SMP 
code of the NBSD kernel at the moment. They seem to be hard to find as 
some of them have been there quite long. Random hangs and panics seem to 
be normal and unfortunately it seems to be the same with the SMP code of 
FreeBSD as well...

Cheers,
Anders

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:47:07 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
> To: Anders Hogrelius <ahs@hogrelius.nu>
> Cc: port-alpha@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: PWS500au hangs if more than 1Gb of RAM is installed.
> 
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Anders Hogrelius wrote:
>
>> I wonder if this fix might solve some of the problems I've had on my 264DP
>> which has 4Gb RAM. With a 3.1 SMP kernel it refused to see the drive 
>> connected to the IDE adapter... Where and how do I get and apply the fix?
>> 
>> I've had some weird hangs with the uniprocessor kernel as well... They 
>> might also be solved with this patch.
>
>  I don't know why you think this change would help your system.  The change 
> is only for machines using the cia, such as the AlphaServer 1000A (noritake), 
> Personal Workstation (miata), EB164, and which ever model was kn20aa.  The 
> 264DP would probably be a EV6-Tsunami based system.  I've run
> NetBSD on an ES40, which is EV6-Tsunami based) with 8GB of memory and 4
> cpus long enough to run a full NetBSD build.  It seemed fairly stable at the 
> time (well over 1 year ago), after I disabled the USB interface and after 
> fixing a bug in the mlx driver that caused problems when the ES40 needed to 
> use sgmaps for DMA.  I don't remember at the moment what version of NetBSD I 
> was running at the time.  [That machine has been running a production OpenVMS 
> system since then.]
>
> --
> Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
> Computer Consultant
> Information Technology Center
> Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA
>

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