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Date:      Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:49:43 +0100
From:      Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, JG <jarek@adeon.lublin.pl>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_W=F6rner?= <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: slow tar performance on fbsd5
Message-ID:  <43524C67.9040503@algroup.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20051014120728.O22507@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <134970360.20050825104636@adeon.lublin.pl> <20050825092210.25239.qmail@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1476333643.20050825224149@adeon.lublin.pl> <434F7EBA.1090206@algroup.co.uk> <20051014120728.O22507@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
>> JG wrote:
>>
>>>> Now I say, what about
>>>> # cpio -i < mysql-m.tgz
>>>> (assuming that mysql-m.tgz is in "tar" format)?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> idea is good, but the result is the same :/
>>
>>
>> The filesystem is _much_ slower in 5 than it is in 4. You can 
>> benchmark it with postmark (in the ports tree) - the difference is huge.
> 
> 
> If you haven't tried 6.x yet, please do, and see if that improves the 
> situation.  And if you run into problems, please report ASAP so we can 
> try to get them fixed before we release.  :-)

Hmmm... all of my 5.x systems are live, so this is a bit risky for me!

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