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Old 7th April 2013
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Hello,
I am running OpenBSD 5.2 AMD64 (release) on
Thinkpad T61p ...Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz, 4GB Ram.

OpenBSD 5.2 runs great on this machine. I love it. Only thing I noticed that file copying or transferring from sdcard or usb stick to hard drive is much slower compare to running FreeBSD, Linux or Windows.
Is that due to the encryption?

Here is attached dmesg.
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Is that due to the encryption?....Here is attached dmesg.
What encryption?

This particular dmesg output was from your initial installation (RAMDISK_CD kernel) and then your first boot only (GENERIC.MP kernel), and does not show any encryption hardware, nor any use of the softraid(4) CRYPTO discipline.

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The dmesg shows USB connectivity hardware with both USB 1.x and USB 2.0, via uhci(4) and ehci(4) drivers. But there is no USB mass storage device attachment in this particular dmesg.

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The dmesg shows attachment of a 16GB SD card via the sdmmc(4) driver, but does not show any issues with it.

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The dmesg shows a fatal firmware error for your Intel Wireless driver, iwn(4). Look in /etc/firmware for iwn-* files; if none are seen, firmware has not been installed. This appears to be the device's only NIC. If that's the case, fw_update(1) will not be usable and you will need to obtain the firmware manually from http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware...are-5.6.p0.tgz and install it using pkg_add(1).

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The dmesg shows attachment of a 16GB SD card via the sdmmc(4) driver, but does not show any issues with it.
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That is my point. Why is transfer speed from this sdcard or even usb stick much
slower compare other operating systems used on this same laptop.
I am not complaining, just curious why.

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The dmesg shows a fatal firmware error for your Intel Wireless driver, iwn(4). Look in /etc/firmware for iwn-* files; if none are seen, firmware has not been installed. This appears to be the device's only NIC. If that's the case, fw_update(1) will not be usable and you will need to obtain the firmware manually from http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware...are-5.6.p0.tgz and install it using pkg_add(1).
My wifi works great. First thing that I installed was iwn-firmware-5.6p0.tgz.

here is dmesg after reboot.

How you clear dmesg log on OpenBSD ??. Can't find info anywhere for it.
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Forget to attach dmesg

here is
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How you clear dmesg log on OpenBSD ??.
A copy of dmesg(8) output is saved to /var/run/dmesg.boot at boot. No option is provided to "clear" it.

dmesg(8) output is implemented in a circular buffer, so once the buffer is full, the oldest output is overwritten.
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...or even usb stick...
A USB stick has not has not been attached since installation, according to your dmesg.

A quick look through misc@ and tech@ archives for any discussion of the sdmmc driver or your Intel 82801H I/O controller found no one else reporting a performance issue.

You might consider posting your question to the misc@ mailing list. If so, please read http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html before posting -- your Email must be plain text, trimmed to less than 80 character lines, without any attachments, and should include your dmesg in-line. You may elect to trim it to the point of the most recent boot, for ease of review. If you wish assistance with USB performance, be sure your dmesg includes a history of USB stick attachment.

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jggimi
Thanks for the info on the mailing list. I will try that.
I have not use USB stick on this install, but have used in the past on same machine with same OpenBSD 5.2 AMD64 (release)

Just for the info to copy files (around 180 MB) form sdcard to my HD takes about 40 - 45 seconds on OpenBSD and about 10 -12 seconds on FreeBSD, Linux, Windows...strange. I have not timed it with a stopwatch but est. times are pretty close. There is a noticeable difference.

Side note : Absolute OpenBSD (2nd edition) is coming out soon (hopefully)..
paperback only, I am pre-ordering it and also pre-ordering OpenBSD 5.3 official discs set.

thank again
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I have not timed it with a stopwatch but est. times are pretty close.
time(1) is your friend.
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Thanks for the info.
I found that this works on FreeBSD to clear dmseg log

sudo sysctl kern.msgbuf_clear=1
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I found that this works on FreeBSD to clear dmseg log

sudo sysctl kern.msgbuf_clear=1
I do not see this mentioned in the sysctl(8) manpage; I don't suspect this FreeBSD functionality has been ported.
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Do check to ensure your FFS filesystems are configured with soft updates. Without, which is the default, write functions will be significantly slower.

(It's a default not to have them enabled only because there are some architectures that cannot use them.)
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Thanks again for your help. I will try the soft updates later today. I will post if it made the difference.


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here is the link for the trick.

http://freebsdhints.blogspot.com/201...n-freebsd.html

I have not tried it. I will install FreeBSD on my Thinkpad T23 and see if it works. It is not important if it works or not ...just curiosity.
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