On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:09:55PM -0800, Bharani Chadalavada wrote:
> OK.
> 
> Thank you everyone for all your inputs.  I did really get some insight into
> how things work/supposed to work.
> 
> I recompiled my sources again with some modifications based on your
> suggestions.
> 
> Here are the latest results :-
> 
> Linux - 5 minutes.
> NetBSD (softdep, BUFCACHE - 5%) 9 minutes
> NetBSD(softdep, BUFCACHE - 10%) 8 minutes
> NetBSD(async, BUFCACHE) - 10%) 7 min 40 secs
> 
> I tries higher values for BUFCACHE and could not get better performance
> than this.

Have you tried "make -j 4" on both systems (with a larger bufcache on
NetBSD)? 

Are you using the same compiler options and same compiler version
(what does cc -v report on both systems)?