Re: netbsd on vax 11/730; booting in sim

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:05:56PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> I believe it runs fine (ie. boots) on a simh 11/780. Unfortunately 
> that's not good enough, since I've tried it on the actual 8650 hardware. 
> But if simh is good enough for you...
> 
> However, the second problem I mention is something most people don't 
> even bother testing. That is - build natively. Or do any kind of 
> extensive load tests. Since then the system just hangs after some time. 
> It's a bug somewhere in the kernel, but it takes a little time to expose it.
> Like I said, it took over a day on my 4000/90.

How long ago did you try it ? It looks like the pagedaemon issues that
got fixed by ad@ some time ago (the fixes are in netbsd-5 too now)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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