Subject: Re: Slow disk performance
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
From: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@slk.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/03/2001 10:43:11
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> I hate to be the bringer of bade news.. but I was doing some informal
> benchmarks between my K6-3 450 desktop running NetBSD-current and my 486
> laptop running FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE and I was suprised to find that the 486
> beat the pants off of the desktop in my 'rm -rf' test. The results of my
> test are below... anybody know why this is happening?
[snip]
Are you using softdep on the 1.5Q box? That should make a significant
difference...
-Jon
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