On 11.02.2011 03:49, Nick Holland wrote: > tip: use OpenBSD's resident ftp app, save a package: > /tmp $ ftp http://ftp.spline.de/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/sys.tar.gz
:) > i.e., "basically the same for all" Therefore, I'm ignoring all but the > 4.9 GENERIC. I almost never complain about dmesgs being included, but > including four different dmesgs that show the same result wasn't overly > interesting and 57k emails are a bit big... :) Sorry, just trying to be helpfull :). > > Sounds like you don't have softdeps running on your system. Use 'em > (FAQ 14). > A lot slower, but still a lot better than you are getting, so, I suspect > you have both issues going on. > > There are about 10,000 files in that file, so that's a lot of file > creations, that's the stuff that Softdeps shines on. Enabling softdeps made some improvement but performance is still unacceptable. # mount /dev/sd0a on / type ffs (local) /dev/sd0m on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, softdep) /dev/sd0d on /tmp type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0f on /usr type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0g on /usr/X11R6 type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0h on /usr/local type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0l on /usr/obj type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0k on /usr/src type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0e on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) # pwd /home/test/6 # time tar xzf ./sys.tar.gz 1m2.53s real 0m0.58s user 0m0.62s system I think my problem is somehow related to this: http://old.nabble.com/Dell-R310-with-SAS-drives-very-slow-td28659314.html And this: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/storlink/h200/en/ug/html/features.htm#wp1062398 Thank you. Lukasz