On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 07:07:21PM -0500, Steve McConnel wrote:
> I recently acquired some hardware being retired from work, including a
> genuine Sun SPARCstation 1+ and a 486 system, so I ordered copies of the
> Is this system just too old and slow to run Linux reasonably, or is there
> something pathological going on? It had been running SunOS 4.1.3_U1
Older revisions of the Linux kernel have a bug on some Suns (most sun4c
boxes - but not my ELC!) which causes a gradual degredation in
performance to the point of uselessness. I've never seen the bug in
real life, but it sounds very much like what you're describing. Try
using the 2.2 kernel to install instead of the 2.0 one - IIRC the bug
was fixed for 2.2. Alternatively, someone on debian-sparc may be able
to provide you with an appropriate kernel.
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