Re: macppc vs evbppc binary packages

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:39:25 +0200
Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:18:06 +0200 (CEST)
> Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > > We are trying to build packages on some evbppc systems (under
> > > -6/current) and finding them a bit crashy under load.
> > 
> > Oh, you do?  I wonder if I'm seeing the same problem...  I
> > upgraded one of my macppc systems to 6.0_BETA in order to build
> > packages for that, and started a single-threaded build.  It is
> > now most likely sitting in DDB on the (vga) console back in my
> > office while I'm on the road this week...  Previously I've not
> > experienced such crashes with 4.0, 5.0 or 5.1.
> 
> Unfortunately I made the same experience with macppc and ofppc. Since
> 5.99.4x, which was quite usable, the number of problems were constantly
> growing.

True, I've seen the same, especially with SMP.
Very recent -current seems to do a lot better though, my dual G4 is still 
running 6.99.3  with both CPUs online and build.sh -j4 - previously it would 
hang or panic under moderate IO load, even a build on another machine with 
sources via nfs from the G4 would trigger it.

So, my 2c:
try -current and see what happens.

have fun
Michael