>
> I have noticed that the system seems very slow in general. It is as
> responsive as any system when just doing interactive work but it seems
> to be extremely slow during compiling. I thought that maybe NetBSD 1.6.1
> did not have very good support for the Xeon so I decided to use NetBSD
> 1.6U from 07/05/2003. (I will be compiling a new snapshot shortly to
> try.) There does not seem to be hardly any difference in performance
> between 1.6.1 and 1.6U. Both seem very slow.
>
> The system I am primarily comparing the Xeon to is a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
> system on Supermicro motherboard. It is using IDE drives. The P4 system
> seems to be much, much faster especially during the configurate phase of
> compiling.
>
> Has anyone else observed similar issues on a Xeon system? I am really
> not sure what to think. It seems very strange.
>
> Bryan
>
are caches on? :)