Subject: Re: How stable is NetBSD on a sun3?
To: Kees Jan Koster <david@mono.org (David Brownlee), dutchman@spase.nl>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 05/27/1996 13:06:13
[ On Mon, May 20, 1996 at 12:32:33 (GMT), David Brownlee wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How stable is NetBSD on a sun3?
>
> On Mon, 20 May 1996, Kees Jan Koster wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering how stable NetBSD would be for my faithful sun3. How does
> > it compare to SunOS 4.1.1?
>
> 	Should be pretty stable on a 3/60 - the only outstanding problem
> 	I know about is that sometimes, on some machines something seems
> 	to cause problems with the shared libraries in core, needing a
> 	reboot to clear. (And if that seems vague, thats because the
> 	problem is vague :) NetBSD is also likes a little more memory
> 	than SunOS.

The shared library problems also occur when running diskless (on 3/260).

I'm running a -current kernel of about 960313 on a 1.1 install with only
the NFS related binaries updated.  My NFS server is a SunOS-4.1.1_U1 box.

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