On Feb 23 19:20:28, Noah McNallie 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.
So, your system is "slow" _with_ softupdates? > 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. So, your system is "slow" _without_ softupdates?
