On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:05:54AM -0700, Sean McKay wrote:
> Just an informal poll here...I just setup NetBSD 1.6.2 on my ss20 and
> am having fun setting it up. I'm curious what others are using it for
> on this hardware...I've got 320MB of RAM and and decent HD -- it seems
> a bit slow though. I'm going to put some web pages up on it and see
> what kind of performance I can pull out of it...

I a SS10 with dual Ross HyperSparc 90's running NetBSD 2.0_BETA with the
GENERIC.MP kernel and a 4.3GB Seagate ST34520N of unknown origin from
the parts box.

I'm using it as my Kerberos domain controller (KDC). For that role it's
entirely over-kill: The single 36MHz CPU I had in it originally was more
than sufficient to the task. I'm thinking of adding other
authentication/authoriziation services to the box, though I want to be
careful not to introduce anything that would potentially affect the
integrity of the KDC.

Some simple benchmark timings I took:

With the original boot prom and 36MHz CPU:
[root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh tools kernel=SURYA
real    588m37.399s
user    476m0.142s
sys     92m27.577s


With the new 2.25 boot prom and the dual HyperSparcs at 90MHz and a MP
kernel:
[root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh tools kernel=SURYA
real    357m40.961s
user    0m0.000s
sys     32537722m48.701s
[root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh -j4 tools kernel=SURYA
real    307m2.601s
user    14316867m19.494s
sys     0m0.025s
[root@surya /usr/src]# time ./build.sh -j4 tools distribution
real    1700m51.825s
user    0m0.005s
sys     27036148m17.375s

-T


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