This is just to confirm that both Chrome and Firefox perform _much_ better after I replaced a HDD with a SSD in a Thinkpad T410.
On Apr 26 13:40:46, [email protected] wrote: > Mihai Popescu wrote (2022-04-26 01:13 CEST): > > I use OpenBSD amd64 snapshots on the following dmesg hardware. > > The download rate on a browser was slow and I figured out with some > > memory mapped partition that disk transfer rate was slow. > > I can bear this since I'm not into large file transfer business. But > > here is another interesting fact: each time my disk is used by some > > file transfer, all the running applications, mostly GUI based are > > stalling - that includes mostly chromium ( even if it is not chromium > > that it does the disk data transfer). > > > > My questions are: is something incorrectly set up on my computer, > > regarding the multitasking? > > I understand disk operations are slow, but may I say that kernel is > > dragged in that slow transfer too (no DMA, no cache, etc.)? > > Does this happens to all users, but since there are more powerful > > configuration involved the delay is not so noticeable? > > Mount your file systems with the softdep flag (described in mount(8)). > This should bring HDD i/o to what you're used to on other operating > systems. > > > I know it is hard to project this, but can someone give me a hint > > about a minimum hardware to allow using chromium with no delays, > > please? > > "No" delays? You need one of these https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor > so you can jump over the delays. The good news is, that the slowness > of your machine wouldn't matter anymore. Unfortunately this would have > the side effect that the world around you ages faster. I'd suggest you > invest into real estate to make the skipped time worth more... but I'm > getting carried away... > > *scnr* > > > I know, it should be advisable to get the maximum performance > > hardware, but i'm not in that case. > > This is all very personal. I think chrome+openbsd runs well on 5 year > old hardware with an SSD. > > Best Regards, > Stefan > >
