On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:19:10AM -0700, Anthony Roberts wrote: > > OpenBSD will just fit on 512 MB, including the compiler and docs. > > But that is just a bit too small when you do a recompile (due to files kept > > open by running processes). > > A 512 Mb CF card is a bit painful. Many packages end up needing libraries > out of X (for example, the pfstat port needs X libs to draw its graphs). I > recommend at least 1 Gb, with a full install. I'd say a VM is probably the > best way to do builds. > > > Oh, that sounds a bit discouraging. Isn't CF just a variant of the IDE > > bus, and should therefore be able to reach speeds of 33 - 133 MB/s > > depending on the controller. I realize that a caveat in the OpenBSD > > driver could slow things down, but all the way to 2MB/s ? I'm not saying > > you are wrong, I'm just surprised. Have you done some benchmarks?
If running in IDE mode yes - all other modes are more or less the same but have a memory interface to an integrated IDE controller, either directly or via pccard. > It's not the bus, or OpenBSD's drivers. CF is just slow. This has a > negligible impact on firewall operation, a firewall bounces packets from > network port to CPU to network port without touching the disk. If you're > going to be doing anything ambitious on the flash, I'd be more concerned > about wearing it out than speed. In fact it is running CF in PIO, which is slow. CF can be quite fast if running in an appropriate mode. The problem is that the ELAN520 IDE Interface is limited. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
