On Sun, Apr 13 2008 - 00:06, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 20:27:00 +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
>
> > I'm on my way to put my Plextor PX-EH40L (landisk) back in business.
> > Last time I tried (around July 2007) it had quite poor network
> > performance and high CPU load (with big FTP transfer).
> >
> > Did significant things happened to the source since then (~4.99.22) ?
> > Is it worth installing -current on /landisk or is it the same than
> > -netbsd-4 ?
>
> Current should be faster, but I'm not sure how much faster. Current
> on all platforms benefited from Andy's work on SMP &co and also has
> few minor things not pulled up to netbsd-4 yet (e.g. cache flush
> routines don't have to run on P2 - so system time goes down quite a
> bit for e.g. compile jobs).
>
> Another thing is that instead of rtk(4) it should be possible to use
> re(4) that supports 8139C+ chip found in landisk, which should get you
> better network perfromance, but last time I tried it )with my nfs-root
> usl-5p) it would wedge. Unfortunately I didn't have time to
> investigate.
>
>
> > And BTW, the daily process seem to not build /landisk automatically.
> > Is this correct or did I miss the release ?
>
> Currently netbsd releng build farm only has amd64 machines.
> Unfortunately there's a bug in sh3 gcc that prevents it from compiling
> as a cross-compiler on 64-bit hosts, so all-64-bit releng farm can't
> build any of sh3 ports. :(
>
OK, so I'me gonna try -current, built from home :-)
Regards,
Jo
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