On 17/07/2023 21:40, MLH wrote:
The new box (6 cores) compiles a full amd64 build at about 10x the speed that the old Intel I3 (2 cores) did (yay). I build on the old Hitachi drive, not the SSD (to preserve it a little more).
Don't worry that much about SSDs. Over 7 years I only had one fail in a laptop (which was previously a company laptop for many years so did get a lot of usage). Plus they're cheap.
The interesting thing is that two out of three hard drives on the old box were 'failing'. All sorts of errors reported with them and the os had been seizing every time I tried to compile anything nontrivial, which is why the upgrade. All three hard drives work great with the new motherboard and new power supply. Ha. The Radeon HD 5450 works good, except with Netbsd 10. It works completely fine with the old 9.93, just as with USB. The Radeon gets a lot of lines sprinkled on the screen and often goes blank for a bit. Would be nice to have 10 fix the problems with X display and USB that were introduced with 10.
It is important to raise a PR for any regression you notice with 10. I didn't really get many of them on my hardware.
-- Regards Bartłomiej Krawczyk