Not MP, just one CPU, IRC. It's 200Mhz or something like that. I also
have a Sparc5 Turbo, which is similar speeds. I think both of them have
QFE cards, but I haven't looked at them in a long while. I'd give you
them both, but shipping to the UK seems like it would be more than it's
worth.
Honestly, you might be better off with an x86 or ARM based system (yes,
yes, I know, heresy). I just picked up 3 of these
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360302675223 at $25
ea. They are fanless, diskless and 1ghz. There's also a number of
multi-port x86/ARM boards from Soekris (http://www.soekris.com/), Alix
(http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm) and others that might be better
choices. They sometime turn up on fleabay, a couple of Alix boards sold
last week for less than $20 ea. Even new, they are less than $150.
I love old hardware (I have a couple of NeXT's floating around), but the
power consumption, esp. compared to performance, is pretty bad. That's
particularly true when you compare it to much of the newer fanless,
diskless hardware. It's probably more reliable than a 15 year old SS20
with a 15yr old spinning drive, even if the SS20 hardware is built like
a tank.
(this is just an opinion, don't shoot me ;-)
BTW, the Compaq, which had a 7-bay RAID5 array, was replaced by a RAID10
network attached storage box which is 5-10x faster and consumes about 35
watts....
Chris.
On 10/3/10 11:10 AM, Rodolfo Conte Brufatto wrote:
Ok Chris, but is it an MP one? I mean how many modules do you have at
the SS20?
I am still concerned about using SMP on it... there is no light that it
will be supported in a near future. I can sendo to the developers a
manual from BridgePoint if needed as well as the patch cds for it or a
PROM if needed.
I do not know how i can help on this.
Anyway, I was considering to use NetBSD since they support it... but i
read that they do not support for the current versions...
But I love this SS20 and i am planning to use it for fw/dns or maybe
dhcp as well.
Regards,
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Chris Maresca <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
One thing to be careful about is electricity consumption. I had an
old Compaq 6500 7u 4-way beast and once calculated it was costing
$50+/month in electricity.
The 440 may be a great and cheap platform, but I suspect that a
traditional pizza box form factor would use far less electricity. I
had an SS20 for years as a firewall/mail server and I think it would
still do great. Don't need that much horsepower for that... I
still have it around somewhere, it has a hyperSparc CPU in it.
I think I would look for an Ultra1 or an Ultra10. There also seem
to be a bunch of cheap SunBlade machines out there, but I don't know
how OpenBSD copes with that hardware.
Chris.
On 10/3/10 10:26 AM, Rodolfo Conte Brufatto wrote:
I have an Ultra1 and an Ultra 2 here running rock solid as
well... I have
some pretty old 'muscle' SPARCs.
The only shame is that OpenBSD/sparc does not support SMP yet.
I have one SS20 with 4x HyperSPARC modules 1mb cache each, with
512mb RAM,
73gb disk and 1 qfe... And I still cannot take the full
advantage of it.
BTW,
You can get some V440, V490 on eBay very cheap tho. And they are
pretty good
ones.
Regards,
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Simon Kuhnle<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 04:37:36PM +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
What is considered to be a relatively hassle free
sparc64 box to run
OpenBSD 4.7/4.8 on?
Requirements are fairly minimal: headless, MP if
possible. To
support: NAT via pf, apache, postfix, shell for 2-3 users.
Was looking at Ultra30/60 as they are cheap here in the
UK. Any
comments/experiences to share?
Ultra 60 works fine for me here, running 4.8-current
(but releases should work, too, of course).
I'm doing some IRC, Web, Mail and playing with Nagios.
I have two 360 Mhz CPUs in it and serial works fine, too,
with a DB9-to-RJ45-connector (though it must be 'crossed' IIRC,
as some pins are weird, perhaps somebody else can tell more).
So the headless part is no problem, but if you need a monitor,
you should get a 13W3-to-VGA adapater.
Works very nice and stable and for your requirements
it should totally suffice IMHO, so go for it ;-)
Regards,
Simon
--
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
