On 01/21/15 07:34, Mihai Popescu wrote: ... > After watching this thread, I enabled softdep on all FFS partitions > thinking that Firefox will speed up a bit. I will see the results in > time.
Keep in mind what softdeps do -- they improve performance of disk writes. They do nothing for disk reads. Write a few small files, you won't see much. Write lots of files, you will see a huge difference. Firefox is just plain slow at everything it seems, but writes are not the major bottleneck, so you may not see much gain. If you want to see a huge difference in softdep performance, unpack a tar file with a lot of small files, such as the ports or source files. No stopwatch will be needed to see the difference. Nick.
