Pieter Dumon wrote:
*snip*
... I get the same problem for instance when untarring an
archive of some tens of MB: it takes ages.
I haven't had a DragonFly install active for over a year, but using a tarball we
all have access to - the 98.5 MB DFLY 1.6 iso, I get:
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2U server:
time tar xfz dfly-1.6.0_REL.iso.gz
4.896u 2.366s 0:22.07 32.8% 75+3681k 411+1316io 0pf+0w
DreeBSD 6.1 AMD-64, 3 GHz Pentium-D Dual-Core with 2 GB DDR
Mount was on twin IBM/Hitachi 80 GB PATA UDMA 133 HDD, gmirror software RAID1
Not sure if it matters for an I/O speed test, but the AMD-64 toolset gives me
*many* error messages of the general form:
Unsupported RRIP extension for 56
PN(16): 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 16 38 00 00 00 00 00 00 38
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1U Server:
time tar xfz dfly-1.6.0_REL.iso.gz
real 0m20.255s
user 0m17.747s
sys 0m2.363s
FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE, 2000+ VIA C3 Samuel 2 (796.10-MHz clock) 1 GB DDR
Mount was on twin IBM 60 GB UDMA 100 HDD, atacontrol software RAID1
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Software RAID1 on obsolescent drives such as these is nowhere near 'bleeding
edge', so DragonFly on your hardware should be comparable, if not better - eg
complete in *seconds* what you are reporting in *minutes*.
Something just has to be wrong with your set up.
HTH,
Bill
