No - I haven't tried an older version. The oldest I would go on a
production machine would be 3.9.
I could try 3.9, but to be honest I don't have time to test things
out. I need these servers up, yesterday. I really don't want to use
another OS, but might have to if I don't solve this problem quickly.
Regards,
Stephen
On 15-Nov-06, at 10:19 PM, Brian Keefer wrote:
On Nov 15, 2006, at 8:17 PM, Stephen Schaff wrote:
this is my first post to the list - so please bear with me...
I have 2 amd64 machines that I plan on using in production, and 1
amd64 machine at home for testing.
I tried installing the amd64 openbsd on both machines and
discovered that doing a make on anything goes really, really
slowly. I have the i386 openbsd installed on my test system and it
does everything very quickly. So, I tried installing i386 on my 2
production machines. It's still slow on both of them!
When I say slow, here's what I mean. I'm compiling a new kernel
with raid support. Just doing a make depend take roughly 30
seconds on my test machine and 30 minutes on the production machines.
# time make depend
TEST MACHINE:
0m31.36s real 0m20.64s user 0m6.32s system
PRODUCTION MACHINE:
36m8.08s real 5m32.17s user 1m37.57s system
Another poster and myself have been puzzling over amd64 performance
problems as well. It seems that the OpenBSD/amd64 OS was fast back
in 3.5, but somewhere between then and now it has slowed down
dramatically. Have you tried installing older versions of OpenBSD
to see if the performance is better?
Brian Keefer
www.Tumbleweed.com
"The Experts in Secure Internet Communication"
