Subject: 3.0 Very Slow?
To: None <port-sun3@netbsd.org>
From: John Carr <jcarr@poethecat.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/16/2006 11:05:07
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?

Thanks in advance!