Extraction of only a 180M archive knelled down a 1.8Ghz/P-M4/i686/1Gb
RAM/40GiB IDE HDD machine running vanilla Plan9 installed natively:
term% cat /dev/sdC0/ctl |grep dma
config 0040 capabilities 2F00 dma 00550020 dmactl 00550020 rwm 8 rwmctl 0
term% time /n/mon/mnt/sda9/Downloads/Plan9/mroot-linuxemu.tbz2
...
183.27u 31.06s 623.86r tar zxf
/n/mon/mnt/sda9/Downloads/Plan9/mroot-linuxemu.tbz2
term% ls -l /n/mon/mnt/sda9/Downloads/Plan9/mroot-linuxemu.tbz2
--rw-rw-r-- M 47 root wheel 188569960 Apr 8 16:15
/n/mon/mnt/sda9/Downloads/Plan9/mroot-archlinux.tar.bz2
term% pci -v
0.0.0: brg 06.00.00 8086/1a30 0
Intel Corporation 82845G[GL/GV/GE/PE] Host-Hub Interface Bridge
0.1.0: brg 06.04.00 8086/1a31 0
Intel Corporation 82845[MP/MZ] AGP Bridge
0.29.0: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2482 11 4:0000bf81 32
Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller
0.30.0: brg 06.04.00 8086/2448 0
Intel Corporation 82801BAM/CAM/DBM Hub Interface to PCI Bridge
0.31.0: brg 06.01.00 8086/248c 0
Intel Corporation 82801CAM LPC Interface or ISA bridge: see Notes
0.31.1: disk 01.01.8a 8086/248a 11 0:000001f1 16 1:000003f5 16
2:00000171 16 3:00000375 16 4:0000bfa1 16 5:00000000 1024
Intel Corporation 82801CAM UltraATA IDE Controller
0.31.5: aud 04.01.00 8086/2485 11 0:0000d801 256 1:0000dc81 64
Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC97 Audio Controller
0.31.6: ser 07.03.00 8086/2486 11 0:0000d401 256 1:0000dc01 128
Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC 97 Modem Controller
1.0.0: vid 03.00.00 1002/4c57 11 0:e0000008 134217728 1:0000c001 256
2:fcff0000 65536
ATI Technologies Inc. fdds Radeon Mobility M7 LW
2.0.0: net 02.00.00 10b7/9200 11 0:0000ec81 128 1:f8fffc00 128
3Com Corporation 3C905 CX-TX-M Fast EtherLink for PC Management NIC
2.1.0: brg 06.07.00 104c/ac51 11
Texas Instruments PCI-1420 Texas Instruments 1420
2.1.1: brg 06.07.00 104c/ac51 11
Texas Instruments PCI-1420 Texas Instruments 1420
2.3.0: net 02.00.00 168c/001b 11 0:f8fe0000 65536
Atheros Communications Inc. AR5006X 802.11abg NIC
Moreover, it is strange that Plan9 running under QEMU on 2.4Ghz/Core2
Duo/2Gb RAM/250GiB SATA/IDE HDD machine out performs a natively
installed one.
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