On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 2:41 AM John D. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2026, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 4:32 PM John D. Baker <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > So, single-processor SS-20 with max RAM it is. > > > > I used something between 256 and 512 mb ram for qemu-system-sparc guest ... > > I'll give that a try when my build host is done with its current tasks. > > The hope was to emulate a bigger, faster machine than I physically have. > I have 2 real SS-5/110 systems w/256MB each (and 2 real SS-20s with > 448MB plus 4MB VSIMM each--one with dual SM-61s and the other with a > single dual-CPU ROSS HyperSPARC module at 125MHz. I just have nowhere > to get the SS-20s out and set them up (plus power/heat issues)). > > > Then I added second disk and set it up in guest as swap. > > My disk image is 9.1GB and partition "b" is configured as swap. Is there > advantage to using a separate disk (image) for swap?
Not sure, I just configured a bit too small disk initially ... swap disk was in tmpfs (on Linux host, but NetBSD does have tmpfs too) I also set up ccache/distcc between two qemu instances, but via vde2 (not available on NetBSD as far as I can see) It worked, but bigger packages wanted plenty of ram even for just one cc ... So I ended up just manually restarting gcc compile, only to find it fail eventually. > > -- > |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X > |\ / jdbaker[snail]consolidated[flyspeck]net OpenBSD FreeBSD > | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! > |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
