> > least _try_ to run Linux on your hardware. NetBSD on my laptop (i1200 series
> > Thinkpad) was lagging slow, hopefully Linux makes it fly. I can _feel_ it.
>
> Have you tried NetBSD ever since UBC went in in 1.6? That improves
> responsiveness of the system a lot. FFS soft-dependecies
> improve performace of some types of operations too, while still
> beeing much safer than totally async ext2.

than totally async ffs... not ext2

i did my performance test with 1.5.* (what i posted).

with 1.6 raw file writes/reads for long files are quite similar even a bit
faster, while operations with lot of directories and small files are
faster.