On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:52:05AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > 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? >
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