Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 thanks, and disappointment
To: Donald Lee <MacBSD-68k@caution.icompute.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/21/2005 22:06:36
At 12:28 Uhr -0500 17.4.2005, Donald Lee wrote:
>2. Performance of wget was awful.  Under NetBSD 1.3.3, a wget of a trivial
>URL would use .3 user .2 sys.  Under NetBSD 2.0, this was 4.2u and 2.5s.
>I did some ktrace work and as far as I can tell, this is because NetBSD
>2.0 uses nls (multi-language stuff), and does a bunch of unnecessary work.
>I tried to turn off NLS in the wget build, but was unsuccessful.
>(I think the wget Makefile is busted in this regard)  Note that I could
>not run the 1.3.3-built wget on NetBSD 2.0 due to some dynamic
>library missing problem that I did not chase down.

As Bill has already pointed out, mac68k switched to ELF with NetBSD 1.6, so
you'd need to populate /emul/aout with the appropriate libraries.

My IIsi is still running a 1.5.4alpha snapshot linked with -static that is
rock-stable:

[hauke@la] ~ > uname -a
NetBSD la.causeuse.org 1.5.4_ALPHA NetBSD 1.5.4_ALPHA (LAMIN) #0: Fri Oct
17 14:42:24 PDT 2003     hauke@q700:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/LAMIN
mac68k
[hauke@la] ~ > w
10:01PM  up 213 days, 16:53, 1 user, load averages: 0.61, 0.43, 0.34
USER TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
hauke p0 p54a755d4.dip.t- 10:01PM     0 w
[hauke@la] ~ >

So, updating to 1.5 might be more adequate for your IIci than moving to 2.0
or later. Unfortunately, NetBSD has stopped maintenance for the netbsd-1-5
branch which means there are no more bug and security fixes.

	hauke

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