Michael Gerhards wrote:
> sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
> 
>>Sounds good, however I wouldn't use sparc64 port on production servers. 
>>I tried to get the recent NetBSD-2.x going on my Ultra10, but whenever I 
>>put excess load on it (i.e. forking loads of processes, building large 
>>software packages, starting remote xclients, etc) the kernel panics. 
> 
> 
> That sounds really bad. Actually, I wanted to use my Sun Ultra10 as a
> "production server" (at home only, but as a server) running NetBSD 2.0.
> 
> Would NetBSD 1.6.2 in your opinion be the better choice? I missed the
> powerd-functionality in 1.6.2 (especially the possibility to shut down
> the system by just pressing one key), that was the reason for me to
> upgrade to 2.0-RC1 at the moment.
> 
> Is there any possibility to shut down a 1.6.2 by just pressing one key?
> 
> Michael
> 

I don't think that press-one-key-halts-system is an issue. I think 
NetBSD-2.x has a lot of enhancements compared to 1.6.2. Personally I 
never tried running NetBSD 1.6.2 on sparc64, because I like native 
threads support in NetBSD-2.x etc. You could try NetBSD 1.6.2 and see if 
it's stable enough.

I've been running Solaris 9 on my Ultra10 and so far it's been very 
reliable. I believe you can use pkgsrc on Solaris, I am trying to set it 
up now and if it works I'll have easy access to most software I need, 
thanks to BSD developers.

Wasabi Systems seem to be quite involved in the development of NetBSD 
http://www.wasabisystems.com/products/certified_netbsd/hardware.htm
They seem to offer support for 64-bit UltraSparc architecture, I'm 
curious as to how different their source tree is compared the public 
NetBSD source tree. If somebody wanted to run mission critical NetBSD 
servers on UltraSparc, could Wasabi Systems provide enhanced and 
reliable NetBSD kernel?