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