Hi, I had some spare time yesterday so I did some more playing with my SS20s.
- First, I was wrong about not booting at least with my 180mhz Ross Hypersparcs. Debian sarge does boot. It seems a bit grumpy given that top doesn't work, and, it seems really poky compared to a 60mhz SuperSparc, but it does seem to boot and run. It find it interesting that my benchmarks show that it runs approx 2x the speed of a 60mhz SuperSparc, but, things *seem* slower if they involve running lots of programs or lots of disk i/o. Like say running a ./configure on something. - Trying a dual 180mhz setup with the SMP kernel was fatal though. - Since I'd gone to the trouble to install the SMP kernel, and, I had both a 60mhz and an 85mhz CPU sitting around, I tried them together. I figured that the worst I could do was void my guarantee. Much to my suprise (and the folks at http://mbus.sunhelp.org/), it actually worked. It's quite a nice speedup on this system, especially when running Firefox (since firefox gets one cpu and X gets the other). It also doubled my network performance when running rsync on nfs mounted disks since each rsync process got a cpu. Debian is quite pleasing this system. cheers bruce -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]