On 9/06/2009, at 12:24 PM, Nebojsa Gavrilov wrote:
Hello,
I recently bought new computer (Phenon II X3 720, GA-MA790FXT-UD5P,
4GB
RAM 400GB SATA) and I was decided to install 64 bit (amd64) OpenBSD
4.5 on it. Installation went well and I was setup OpenBSD to use
bsd.mp
kernel.
However OpenBSD recognize just 3.3 GB of 4GB RAM and overall system
response seems very slow (compiling, untar, gunzip...).
I try to speed up OpenBSD with Soft Updates and now it is a little bit
faster then before but again it is very slow for my hardware capacity.
How can I speed up OpenBSD? Can anybody give me some hint what to
do or
give me a keywords for further research?
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Re. the RAM - someone asked the same question on 29th May - search
for "amd64" at http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&r=1&w=3
"Seems very slow" - is rather vague. What's the machine doing?
Are you running X?
What does top say? systat? Lots of interrupts or CPU or IO bound?
Have you tried disabling acpi to see if that makes a difference?
If you try installing FreeBSD/Linux, does it seem any faster?
Is it measurably faster? Horses for courses, each OS has
strengths and weaknesses.
You will need some benchmarks as well, to see if your changes
make any difference.
Think carefully before sending the results - these are just things
for you
to investigate to narrow down the issue(s). If you can actually say
that
turning "foo" off makes your "bar" go 1000% faster, then someone might
be able to help - your question is too vague.
HTH.
