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?
No, softdep trades responsiveness for speed. The overall throughput increases, of course. I've discussed this with him on IRC some time ago. It was futile, he's hung up on thinking he can get the "impossible" by whining about it. This thread is as pointless as anything. > > > 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?
