[ On Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 15:54:33 (+0900), henry nelson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: sun4c vs 1.6
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:02:51PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Back with 1.3 on my SS1 the
> > Xserver died every week or so instead of twice a day or so with 1.5W and
> > 1.6-BETA.
> 
> Is there a slight suggestion hidden here that someone running 1.4.2 on an
> IPC would be wise to stay at that level and not upgrade to 1.5 or 1.6?

No, I would say that 1.5.4 or whatever is latest on the netbsd-1-5
branch is definitely better than 1.3.x or 1.4.x on all sparcs.  I have
no reason to believe that 1.4.x is any better than 1.3.x w.r.t. having
largish long-running processes eventually die (just like my Xserver did).

I would also say that 1.6 is better than any previous release just so
long as your CPU is not one of the ones which trigger the software cache
flush bug (i.e. so lon as your system is not a sun4c class machine which
says "sw flush: cache enabled" on boot -- if it says "hw flush: cache
enabled" then it should be OK).

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