On 02/24/2010 05:10 AM, Tobias Ulmer wrote:
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> 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?
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