Sung N. Cho writes:

>Is it just me or everyone feels same as I do.  It seems that NetBSD
>1.52-current is performing much faster without softdep option enabled. 
>Isn't softdep supposed to make things faster?  Everything seems to open
>faster without softdep option.

Removing a huge file hierarchy or untarring stuff like pkgsrc.tar.gz
certainly is faster, for the rest, I haven't noticed anything yet.
However, it depends... since softdeps on NetBSD have the tendency
to produce a horrible crash, you have to add the time it takes
for the system to reboot and fsck the platters (and sometimes
to restore from magtape), probably you'll end up with a longer
time than if you didn't use the thing in the first place.

--mkb