On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:27:42PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> I'm getting horrible disk performance compared to Ubuntu on my system.
>
> I noticed this when extracting ports.tar.gz on the same machine with
> different OSs (this is something I did a while back to check for
> a possible hardware problem when OpenBSD crashed upon extracting
> ports.tar.gz).
>
> OpenBSD (ffs):
>
> $ time tar -zxf ports.tar.gz 0m59.90s real 0m1.00s user
> 0m6.95s system
>
> Ubuntu (ext3):
>
> $ time tar -zxf ports.tar.gz
> real 0m18.440s
> user 0m1.212s
> sys 0m2.596s
>
> 1 minute on OpenBSD and 18.5 seconds on Ubuntu, doing the exact same
> thing on the exact same hardware! Why the huge difference? Both are
> default installations, except softdep is turned on.
>
> Thanks for any pointers or advice.
>
Try: time tar -zxf ports.tar.gz && sync
