[rescue] Re: Linux on SS1000 (was SS1000)

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Ruschmeyer wrote:

> > sun4c?  YAY!

> > Recently sun4c machines have been becoming less wanted in free software
> > circles...  even NetBSD having a big problem with some of the sun4c's
> > (those without hw cache flush).  You have made me happy =)

> But how's the memory management performance on a sun4c under 2.4? I thought
> I recall it being bad compared to NetBSD, at least under 2.2 kernels.

True, but considering last I heard NetBSD 1.6 had memory corruption on
some sun4c machines, slow is better than corrupt =)

Besides, I LIKE having more choices for OSes, I've got enough sun4c
boxen to run them all =)

--Kurt