where's your dmesg? have you tried a -current snapshot?
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:20, Noah McNallie <n...@n0ah.org> wrote:
> Hey guys. Noah here. I'd like to use openbsd on an older machine i have.
> I've had it on there before and never tested something that i've been
> testing on various operating systems lately. That's how well they do while
> under disk io load, concurrently.
>
> An example would be to tar -zxvf a large tarball and in another terminal,
> try to run a simple command. such as 'uname' or 'ls' or what have you. To
> test responsiveness. It may not be a very good test but it's a everyday
> usage test.
>
> Well, i've found on openbsd without sofdeps enabled it will do this just
> fine. But when enabling softdeps it will not. The 'uname' or 'ls' will take
> quite a while to complete.
>
> The machine is a 300MHz 2MB L2 sparc64 SUN Ultra 30. softdeps is almost
> required as it speeds up something like the extraction of a tarball
> exponentially. I'm guessing somewhere near 25x. It's very slow on this
> machine without sofdeps.
>
> Any help leading to a sollution is more than apreciated!
>
> Noah McNallie
> n0ah
