On 24/02/2010 09:52, 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? > >> 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? >
I think he means untar is faster but doing ls, uname etc is slower WHILE doing the untar. It's a fair enough question till you actually think about it. I think Tobias Ulmer summed it up best
