Hi,

Many of you probably read the article on BSDtoday claiming OpenBSD 3.0 is 
significantly faster than Linux; and some of the OpenBSD users posted 
comments claiming 3.0 is even faster than FreeBSD!  I don't know because I've 
never tried OpenBSD myself.  But, I thought much of the OpenBSD inside was 
that of NetBSD.  Whatever it is, I've noticed recently that disk I/O 
performance of NetBSD-current (1.5ZA) is significantly faster than any 
previous versions of NetBSD.  Softupdate seems to be much more stable and my 
KDE2.2.2 opens things significantly faster.  Even the KDE media player seem 
to play tunes much smoother.  Is this just my imagination or NetBSD current 
really did improve?  Or is it just my new settings in /etc/fstab and the fact 
that I compiled the whole source, including the kernel, pkgsrc with that 
option -O3 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686?  Or, is it combination of everthing?

My /etc/fstab:

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/dev/wd0a / ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodevmtime,nocoredump 1 1
/dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/wd0e /var ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodevmtime,nocoredump 1 2
/dev/wd0f /usr ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodevmtime,nocoredump 1 2
/dev/wd0g /home ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodevmtime,nocoredump 1 2
/dev/wd0h /windows msdos rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
kernfs /kern kernfs rw 0 0
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Yours sincerely,
Sung N. Cho,
Sunday, Mar. 03, 2002.