Re: Poor SSD write performance (new install)

[Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 9/11/13 3:47 AM, Nick LaForge wrote:
> FWIW, I untaring pkgsrc.tar is just as slow in FreeBSD as in NetBSD.
> Perhaps Linux is more optimized for my (outdated and slow) compact flash
> based SSD.

   Try running "sync" just after untaring pkgsrc on the linux system.

   My debian system untar's pkgsrc suprisingly fast (it's a very slow
system compared to my netbsd system), but when I run sync (or umount)
afterwards it'll wait for quite a while before returning.

   /Jan