Re: Soft updates beta available on OpenBSD

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

For those who wonder, here are the results of some tests with the soft
update code.  Remember... don't bug Kirk with bug reports; bug
Constantine.

The first set is a "MAKEDEV all" followed by an "rm -rf".

MAKEDEV    without   2.9u 12.4s 0:26.43 58.0% 0+0k 32+1759io 2293pf+0w
MAKEDEV    with      3.0u 12.3s 0:16.50 93.2% 0+0k 38+33io 2324pf+0w
rm         without   0.0u 0.5s 0:07.19 7.6% 0+0k 1+879io 1pf+0w
rm         with      0.0u 0.5s 0:00.44 127.2% 0+0k 1+7io 3pf+0w

This second set is a "tar xvp base22.tar.gz" followed by an "rm -rf".

tar xfp    without   0.8u 4.0s 1:28.62 5.5% 0+0k 845+10913io 43pf+0w
tar xfp    with      0.7u 4.6s 1:11.38 7.5% 0+0k 850+6141io 43pf+0w
rm -rf     without   0.0u 0.8s 0:48.28 1.8% 0+0k 385+4655io 1pf+0w
rm -rf     with      0.0u 0.5s 0:06.63 8.7% 0+0k 356+171io 1pf+0w