On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:05:07AM -0500, John Carr wrote:
> Hello, all!
> 
> I'm still in the initial stages of troubleshooting this, but has anyone 
> else noticed that NetBSD-3.0 is *very* slow on sun3 compared to 2.x? 
> I'm using the GENERIC kernel on a 3/60 w/24Mb. Network access appears 
> to be normal and speedy, but everything else is intolerably slow.
> 
> I first noticed this when enabling ssh and it took almost 6 hours to 
> create a DSA key... clearly something was wrong. My next clue was when 
> trying to recompile the kernel, "make depend" wasn't complete, even 
> after 24+ hours. The last straw was attempting to untar something 
> (screen-4.0.2.tar.gz), and after 15 minutes, it still wasn't extracting 
> files from the tarball... iostat was showing no disk or CPU activity.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot this much further because it's 
> running *so* slowly. This same machine was running 2.0.2 only a few 
> days before with no issues, so the hardware, as far as I can tell, is 
> not affected. I'm not seeing any errors anywhere either. I 
> double-checked GNATS and didn't see an open issue for it.
> 
> Before I dig into this further with ktrace, etc., is anyone else seeing 
> this?

I just upgraded a 3/80 from 1.6Zsomething to 3.0. I didn't notice any
noticeable slowdown, but I didn't try compiling anything on this box yet.

BTW, I upgraded an alphastation 255 from 1.6.2 to 3.0 (it's my main
workstartion) and it's much faster.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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