So I've been running -current on a Sun 3/50 with 12 megs.

Userland is from the most recent snapshot, and the kernel source is
from March 12, 2002.

I'm running a stripped kernel that I built myself, and I'm running rdate a
few times a day to my ntp server to keep the clock updated.

You can see here the rev of my kernel:

NetBSD slug 1.5ZB NetBSD 1.5ZB (SLUG) #0: Tue Mar 12 23:55:22 MST 2002     rmk@slug:/usr/src/sys/arch/sun3/compile/SLUG sun3

The major application that I'm using, so far, is tinyfugue to connect to a
MUD.

I can use SSH1 with this machine, but SSH2 times out as the system frantically
pages.

Also, the first thing to do is to delete /var/db/locate.database. Rebuilding
that file caused the system to thrash and run into the next days cron jobs.
I had 50 processes pound the poor machine to death.

Below is the output of top -n:

/usr/local/home/rmk> top -n
load averages:  0.54,  0.21,  0.12    19:51:14
19 processes:  18 sleeping, 1 on processor

Memory: 4592K Act, 2720K Inact, 216K Wired, 1256K Free, 1952K Swp, 277M Swp free


  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 2235 root       2    0   368K 1664K select     0:25 42.39% 36.67% sshd
 2236 rmk       18    0   440K  392K pause      0:01 18.17%  5.37% ksh
    3 root     -18    0     0K    0K pgdaemon   0:04  0.29%  0.29% [pagedaemon]
    5 root      18    0     0K    0K syncer    21:55  0.24%  0.24% [ioflush]
    4 root     -18    0     0K    0K reaper     0:47  0.05%  0.05% [reaper]
  184 root       2    0   368K  608K select    26:16  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  165 root       2    0   336K  936K select    12:48  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  178 root      10    0   200K  528K nanoslee   0:14  0.00%  0.00% cron
 2228 rmk        2    0   408K 1144K select     0:06  0.00%  0.00% tf
   76 root       2    0   144K  592K select     0:06  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
    6 root     -18    0     0K    0K aiodoned   0:04  0.00%  0.00% [aiodoned]
  185 rmk       18    0   440K  352K pause      0:02  0.00%  0.00% <ksh>
    1 root      10    0   344K  160K wait       0:01  0.00%  0.00% <init>
 2240 rmk       48    0   136K  872K CPU        0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
  180 root       3    0    80K    0K ttyin      0:00  0.00%  0.00% <getty>
  181 root       3    0    80K    0K ttyin      0:00  0.00%  0.00% <getty>
  173 root       2    0   104K    0K select     0:00  0.00%  0.00% <inetd>
    2 root      -6    0     0K    0K sccomp     0:00  0.00%  0.00% [si0:0]

I think that the days of NetBSD/sun3 will soon close for the Sun 3/50, of
course their are earlier versions that run well.
-- 
Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com