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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:26:53 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Royce Williams <royce.williams@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?
Message-ID:  <20100410232653.GD6166@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2t9dd082311004092055sf05a7cf1s9a9ec2a5e6bdc362@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20100324075709.GC13561@lonesome.com> <20100324223809.GA34342@alchemy.franken.de> <4BAB4AB9.2090908@buffalo.edu> <1269526260.2007.3.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> <20100325233558.GI20888@alchemy.franken.de> <4BACCC0C.7010401@freebsd.org> <oqsk75p5t2.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> <20100410015309.GB19697@lonesome.com> <t2v9dd082311004092052mae35776fy17d679542bd5ba0@mail.gmail.com> <m2t9dd082311004092055sf05a7cf1s9a9ec2a5e6bdc362@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 07:55:44PM -0800, Royce Williams wrote:
> In that 2007 thread, Hiroki Sato said that he needed hardware or $ to
> revive his E4500s.  Does anyone know if that ever happened?

We decommissioned two of the three.  They were powered down more often
than not.

I have a V240 here in various pieces that I've bought off of eBay, but
I've not yet assembled and powered it up to see if it is sufficiently
fast to serve for this purpose.  The most recent V210 that we just brought
up as a package building node (same flavor machine, different configuration)
seems heavily disk-bound.  I don't know yet whether that is due to the
physical disks, or the setup of that machine.  It's a dual 1GHz, 6G RAM,
which is the beefiest machine we've got.

I won't have the time to investigate disk performance before BSDCan but if
it turns out that it's the physical disks I'll be happy to take you up on
your offer and repurpose the machine.

mcl



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