On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:02:06PM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:27:42PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > I'm getting horrible disk performance compared to Ubuntu on my system. > > > > I noticed this when extracting ports.tar.gz on the same machine with > > different OSs (this is something I did a while back to check for > > a possible hardware problem when OpenBSD crashed upon extracting > > ports.tar.gz). > > > > OpenBSD (ffs): > > > > $ time tar -zxf ports.tar.gz 0m59.90s real 0m1.00s user > > 0m6.95s system > > > > Ubuntu (ext3): > > > > $ time tar -zxf ports.tar.gz > > real 0m18.440s > > user 0m1.212s > > sys 0m2.596s > > > > 1 minute on OpenBSD and 18.5 seconds on Ubuntu, doing the exact same > > thing on the exact same hardware! Why the huge difference? Both are > > default installations, except softdep is turned on. > > > > Thanks for any pointers or advice. > > > Try: time tar -zxf ports.tar.gz && sync
And include the output of mount and show the place where you are untarring. -Otto