I haven't used softdep.

>hi,
>
>are you using softdeps?  if so, there was a bug in the 1.5 softdep code
>which could result in data corruption but made things much faster.
>now that the bug is fixed, things are unfortunately slower.  but in
>-current we've made other unrelated changes which make things much faster
>again (the new dirpref algorithm).  hopefully the dirpref stuff will be
>backported to the 1.5 branch so that 1.5.3 can be faster as well.
>
>if you're not using softdeps, then we'll have to look for another cause.
>
>-Chuck
>
>
>On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:51:15AM -0700, Bri wrote:
>>  Heres the situation
>>  K6-2/300MHz, 64MB RAM, NetBSD 1.5.1., 2 physical drives both with
>> softdeps
>> 
>>  While trying to untar pkgsrc.tgz on a un-loaded system (about 20megs of
>> RAM used, no swap space used) it's abysmall slow. Disk writes top out at
>> about 200KB/second. I did not notice this when the same box was running
>> 1.5 (and I did untar those files to upgrade to 1.5.1) and it can do the
>> reverse process (i.e. tar up the pkgsrc directory) at full speed. RAM
>> never gets filled up though, and no swap space is ever used on disk. It's
>> odd too, because it seems to go at full speed for about 80 files then get
>> really slow.
>> 
>>  I've checked when I can, I've tried running the priorities -5 nice,
>> I've tried gunziping them first (which is fast) all to no avail.
>> 
>>  These same tar files untar fast on another box.
>> 
>>   Any suggestions?
>> 
>>  itai at replic d0t net
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