I have an Ultra 5 with a 270mhz UltraSparc IIi running NetBSD 3.1,  
that usually sits around running dhcpd and hosting a ssh login. Its  
load average when idle is consistently in the 0.08-0.10 range.  
Looking at top, [ioflush] is consistently at the top of CPU-usage.  
I'm used to other operating systems having a load average of 0 when  
idle like that. Any idea what's happening?

Also, since while 3.1 is the latest release, it seems to be based on  
a many-years-old version of the development tree, I'm thinking about  
updating to a 4.0 beta (If I can find a recent one compiled for  
sparc64) or a -current snapshot (They're not the same thing, right?  
Trying to find out any information about what'll be in future  
releases and how -current relates to 4.0 on the netbsd web page was  
frustrating) so I can play with the latest and greatest -- in  
particular, hardware accelerated GL, since my Ultra 5 has an ATI Mach  
64 card (I don't think I'd /use/ it since I usually don't have a  
monitor even hooked up to the machine, but it would be rewarding to  
see a fast glxgears). Getting the thread bug fix would be nice too.  
And, mmm... do any of the development versions support SMP on  
sparc64? I have a dual-cpu Ultra 60 with an old version of FreeBSD I  
wouldn't mind using with Net instead.

Thanks.

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Shawn W.
shawnw@speakeasy.org