[Fedora-sparc] Issue with SBUS ESP?

[Lamar Owen]

On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 05:05:17 pm Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 05:01 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > I have an SBUS framebuffer or two, the I/O cards can use that, and even
> > the E6500 has a keyboard port.... yes, you can run one in headed
> > mode....I just have to round up a keyboard extension for Sun....or a Sun
> > to PS/2 adapter (I think I have that item, if I can round it up).

> Hehe, well, that is an option. I wasn't going to suggest it outright. ;)

:-)

One big deskside tower is all I can say.... and it does need a pretty 
substantial UPS.

If I were more confident in the condition of my two E3500's I'd test there, or 
on the E5500, which I've cannibalized of several parts (including the power 
sequencer; I'm using one from an E6000 along with the one from the E5500 as 
PDU's from our Symmetras' L6-30 plugs to our Cisco 7609 and 12012 router's 
lower current 208VAC requirements... those PDU's being rack mounted and all, 
they work great).  So the E6500 is in the best shape of any of my larger Sun 
boxen, and is something I'd like to have running for a Squid/Pound reverse 
proxy to our Plone site for heavy traffic.  As well as a PostgreSQL server with 
great throughput in its own right (I've benchmarked the E6500 with PostgreSQL, 
and it is a concurrent connection beast, at least with Aurora 2.0).

Not a fast desktop system, though.  (and that would be one heavy-duty desk is 
all I can say....)....

In any case, it's installing right now.  I'd rather do some RAID for things, 
since I have two D1000 shelves full of drives, and four DiffSCSI channels to 
feed them, but a single drive will work ok for now.  Just have to do some work 
later.

But, looking at the dmesg right now reminds me of something: is it really 
necessary to have so much swap?  (the autopartitioner gave me 17GB of 
swap.....) it's not like this box has a suspend mode or anything.... :-)