Subject: Re: Stability of NetBSD/VAX
To: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/11/1997 02:52:26
On April 10, you wrote:
> I'm just wondering how stable is NetBSD/VAX supposed to be.  I've had
> some unexplained and bad things happen on my two VAXstation 2000s. 
> First of all, it seems that if junk (eg. a binary file, accidentally) is
> sent through the console port there is almost always a crash.  The
> VS2000 sometimes even reboots but then doesn't work right until power
> cycled.  I've also had panics due to filesystem errors such as corrupt
> directories.  This was just some filesystem on /mnt.  I've also just had
> fsck on boot crash the system repetedly until I booted into single user
> mode and fsck completed without finding errors.  Is this normal or is
> something wrong here?  Should things be better on a MicroVAX II?
> 
> BTW.  Yes, I know that this is a rather new port and support for VS2000
> is especially new, so I'm not trying to lay blame.  I'm just wondering
> if these errors are due to NetBSD or bad hardware or configuration.

  I've had uptimes in excess of 50 days on a MicroVAX-II running
1.1...and it was reasonably heavily used...

                             -Dave McGuire
                              mcguire@neurotica.com