On 02/23/2010 08:47 PM, Bryan wrote:
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> where's your dmesg? have you tried a -current snapshot?
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:20, Noah McNallie<n0ah@n0ah.org>  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.
>>
>> 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
>
>

if by -current snapshot you mean openbsd 4.6 then yes, that's what i'm 
using.

Noah McNallie
n0ah