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Hi,

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> > Given the recent discussion threads on the 1.5 release performing less
> > than wonderfully on slower hardware like the 0.9 MIPS MicroVAX-II, I'm
> > curious about it's usability on the ever slower VAX 11/750 and 11/730.
> 
> If it takes the MVII over 6 minutes to load, I would be very curious
> as to how long it took a 1/3 as fast machine to load.  For the sake
> of discussion, is there any thought towards tailoring a special
> VAX NetBSD suite to just the old slow machines because of their
> limitations, that might be optimized for speed or minimized for
> critical mass or footprint, etc.?  I sense the bulk or waistline
> of the current builds are approaching or are at that point of possible
> limitiation.

Well I got my MicroVAX 3100 m10e all set up, enabled a handful of daemons,
and noticed that 4M RAM is really not enough to do anything contructive
with this machine at all. After over 8 hours (I left it overnight), I
decided to give up on waiting for it to boot. It'd got up to starting
nfsd. It really hits swap hard (there's plenty of it).

However, after a certain point, it ceases to hit swap hard, and the
machine just seems to crawl, hitting the swap drive less and less as
time goes on (and memory is used), until the machine is practically
stopped. I shudder to think about what this would be like on a slower
machine.

Bye for now,

       Matt
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