> > * At times the machine seems to wait a few seconds. > > > > For example quitting a man page viewed with less, doing an ls -l ~ > > sometimes takes seconds. Repeating it in another time gives a > > normal behavior. > >
> > The first problem seems more strange. Maybe the RAM is simply too > > big, or the HD to large? Or is it a CPU bug? > > No to all three. They are making BIGMEM related changes (so you can use physical RAM in excess of 4GB, the most was a dmesg pron posting for 128 GB) and you probably got a kernel which is having those changes for testing. Try 4.8 stable for now or the latest cvs sources which have some changes backed out. good luck. > > OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu Apr 7 10:18:50 CEST 2011 > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP > > You should try amd64 on it... > > ciao, > David

