Subject: Re: NetBSD 3 SCSI broken
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/18/2006 03:35:13
John Klos wrote:
>>> Sadly I think that very few people use the mac68k systems for long
>>> times anymore, especially for servers.
>>
>> Well, I do, but mine are all 1.6.x since I haven't seen the need to 
>> update.
>> This makes me even less likely to.
> 
> Exactly. Mine are excellent backup DNS and backup MX servers, and are 
> even doing things like helping to seed bittorrents. But no matter how 
> hard I try, I can't upgrade without ending up with machines which lock up.

I've been building packages pretty regularly for several months now, and 
haven't seen this locking up.  That machine uses 2.1.  But I'm not sure 
that it reaches a level of disk usage that you'd consider thrashing, 
either.  I've never really monitored it.

Tim

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Tim & Alethea
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