On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 07:03:00PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hello! > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:23:39PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >Wijnand Wiersma wrote: > >>On 4/5/06, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>I'm sick and tired of this "OpenBSD doesn't perform well" FUD. It is > >>>nothing but FUD or over-generalization. > > >>Well, I don't entirely agree. > >>At some tasks OpenBSD feels sluggish, X performs much slower for > >>example then on *sigh* Linux *sigh*. > > >So, why blame OpenBSD for that then. Did they design it? > > If the difference is that the *same* X is more responsive on OS A than > on OS B, then there must be a difference between A and B responsible for > it rather than X. > > But then, I feel a general sluggishness not only with X if my box is > doing much I/O. I.e. even starting little programs like trn feels slower > while e.g. the backup is running, i.e. X11 isn't even involved, just > some shell, screen, sshd, and trn.
X being slower could be caused by lack of hardware acceleration, at least for some combinations of cards, X servers, and so on. Most OSes ship with blobby acceleration, OpenBSD doesn't but loses out on some performance[1]. I do agree that, in particular, the disk access scheduler does not seem optimized for desktop use - I see the same while doing a backup, or even just untarring/cvs up-ing. Joachim [1] And gains in stability, openness, correctness and security, but that's not the point.