Sparcstation 5

[JJ Neff]

> 
> His potential problem is that he has an oddball TurboSparc (170 mhz) sparc5
> which has known issues with linux, due to its obscurity.  Also with only 32
> megs
> of ram, it's an utter dog speed wise (always heavy into swap), esp under
> slow-
> waris.   The last sparc 5 (110 mhz more common model with 32 meg) I ran did 
> run linux well,  but it suffered from low memory (always swapping).
> 
>

Like I said "I honestly didn't know what the problem was" :-)

I missed the discusion on that processor.  Didn't know one processor stood out
as an oddball.  Good to know when I am browsing for Sparc Workstations...

JJN

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