Hi:

In this side I have 256 mb and I never had any problem to install 1.6.1 or 
2.0 v1.



Claudio Leiva S.
Las Vegas, Nevada.
USA
http://cleiva.no-ip.org
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Pelts" <alexp@broadcom.com>
To: "Daniel Ouellet" <daniel@presscom.net>
Cc: "Claudio Leiva S" <cleivas@cox.net>; <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: Compile PF in kernel on Cobalt is no go on 3.0


>I have 128+16 memory in my Qube. 128 is in the first slot and 16 is in the 
>second. The memory is good as I had no problems with 1.6.2 at all. I 
>purchased this memory from a good source. I deal with them all the time and 
>they always sold me an excellent memory. I can give a reference if
> someone is interested.
>
> I hope this works out for you because for me it is hit and miss.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> Daniel Ouellet wrote:
>> All servers are running one applications each, but in productions and 
>> have a good amount of load.
>>
>> Some run qmail, others djbdns, some ftp, some web service, some many perl 
>> scripts, some mrtg, one nagio, I even have one running MySQL, but that 
>> took for ever to compile it, two days!
>>
>> All of them are making it to 3.0, obviously, they are not all there yet 
>> for sure. Does take time to do so.
>>
>> Are you sure your memory is good? It will panic with bad one.
>>
>> But I will make sure to put some under a very good load and report back 
>> on the outcome.
>>
>> One thing to be said, all my Cobalt are RaQ 2, however. I had issue with 
>> one before that only had 16 Mb and crash, but putting only 32Mb took care 
>> of it and is not running for well over a year none stop.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alex Pelts wrote:
>>
>>> I do not have PF or SCSI or RIDFrame. This is the last panic I got:
>>>
>>> "panic: lockmgr: no context".
>>>
>>> I am not even sure what was going on as it happened at night. It is 
>>> kindof annoying for the box to panic out of the blue. Don't get me 
>>> wrong, I am not complaining but IMHO 3.0 is not ready to be a release at 
>>> least on the qube.
>>>
>>> What are you running on your qubes? I am running apache with php and ssh 
>>> . That is basically it. I also ftp sometimes in to the qube to upload 
>>> pictures and such and download backups. Under 2.1 ftp downloads caused 
>>> panic. Under 3.0 http server is causing panic. I am not so sure what the 
>>> "lockmgr" is.
>>>
>>> The load of my server is very light. I have maybe 200 hits on a good 
>>> day. Mostly it is idle.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel Ouellet wrote:
>>>
>>>> So far I can't say I have any issues.
>>>>
>>>> But again, on all my boxes and for years, I never do any upgrades.
>>>>
>>>> I always do a clean install and it takes care of any problems I have 
>>>> seen otherwise.
>>>>
>>>> In a few weeks, I can report more success or failures and I will have 
>>>> more then about 30 boxes of various ages running 3.0 with PF enable in 
>>>> kernel and without the RAIDFrame and SCSI stuff. So far every time I 
>>>> took that out, it resulted in increase stability.
>>>>
>>>> YMMV, but that's from my side and not only one one box, but many of 
>>>> them!
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>> Alex Pelts wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I installed 3.0 from the working qube by unpacking, not from restore 
>>>>> cd. I have random crashes when http server is accessed by more than 1 
>>>>> client at the same time. Kernel is custom compiled to remove the 
>>>>> things that I don't use.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am thinking of going back to 1.6.2 which was a very stable version 
>>>>> at least for me. 2.1 was even less stable than 3.0 and I do not see 
>>>>> any benefits as far as performance goes. I will probably wait until 
>>>>> 3.0 matures to move my qube to it again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Alex
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Claudio Leiva S wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any issue installing 3.0 on a Qube 2, I have the process with the CD 
>>>>>> done but when it restart it get stuck on "Starting Up".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas, the specs of my box are.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 256 mb
>>>>>> 120 Gb hard drive
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunatelly I dont have a serial connection with the box..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Claudio Leiva S.
>>>>>> Las Vegas, Nevada.
>>>>>> USA
>>>>>> http://cleiva.no-ip.org
>>>>>> (Powered by NetBSD for Cobalt)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ouellet" 
>>>>>> <daniel@presscom.net>
>>>>>> To: <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:06 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Compile PF in kernel on Cobalt is no go on 3.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried a few times to enable PF and so far, I can't even compile 
>>>>>>> the kernel with it enable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As far as I can see, only these needs to be commented out:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> pseudo-device   pf                      # PF packet filter
>>>>>>> pseudo-device   pflog                   # PF log if
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> as by default it is not in the GENERIC kernel.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have no problem making any changes to the kernel and get it to 
>>>>>>> compile, but this two line to turn it up as far as I can see, result 
>>>>>>> in no go.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wish I had the error to put here, but as it takes a long time to 
>>>>>>> compile, I did it in the background and sing off, so, I didn't see 
>>>>>>> the errors the last time, but no matter what variation I do, still 
>>>>>>> no go.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyone able to do so yet? Am I forgetting to do something else as 
>>>>>>> well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, in default there isn't a PF device in the /dev, so I use 
>>>>>>> makedev to create it, not sure that it is the proper way for this 
>>>>>>> one however.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any clue to offer?
>>>>>>>
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