On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Michael Kukat wrote:

> > But, my VS3100M76 with kernel 
> > NetBSD 1.4_BETA (GENERIC) #2: Thu Apr 29 03:21:07 CEST 1999
> >     ragge@vs4000:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC
> > hangs when it uses swap...
> > Without swap it runns stable. 
> 
> Strange... I compiled the full kernel sources on a 3100m76 with NFS swap
> without any problems. Maybe some NFS servers don't work fine enough ?
> (Mine is RedHat linux 5.2, don't know nfsd version.)

I've done quite a bit of serious compilation on my VS3100/M76 as well and
it holds up admirably.  I do get the occassional hang when I'm deep into
extremely resource intensive ones... usually many nested make processes
deep.

-brian.
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