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]> 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]> 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?
