Subject: Re: Slow disk performance
To: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@slk.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/03/2001 12:02:40
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jon Lindgren wrote:
> 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...

Yes, both machines were using softdeps.

Jared