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.
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.
Any help leading to a sollution is more than apreciated!
Noah McNallie
n0ah
