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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