So, I installed OpenBSD on my ThinkPad T400 a few weeks ago. It was going okay, but then a job came up that required Windows.
I do not run Windows on any of my devices due to a galaxy of reasons, but i keep an old hard drive handy with Tiny10 that I can shove into a laptop when needed (a rare occurrence).
Anyway, I noticed that somehow, Tiny10 actually ran considerably better than OpenBSD on this particular machine, despite also using a hard drive rather than an SSD.
My OpenBSD setup uses bspwm, and my RAM usage is normally quite low unless vimb is open.
Is there any way i could increase the performance of OpenBSD on my ThinkPad?
::: spoiler Specifications
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400
- GPU : Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset
- RAM: ~8GB
- Disk: 240GB SATA SSD :::
5 Comments
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
maybe hyperthreading is disabled on openbsd? or meltdown/spectre mitigation not applied to old tiny10?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
No hyperthreading on that proc :/.
vermaden@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
That ThinkPad T400 is REALLY old and OpenBSD is known to be slow - so if you connect slow hardware with slow OS ... you get what You get.
IMHO update to at least to T420/T430 ... or change OpenBSD to NetBSD or FreeBSD.
stsp@azorius.net · 1 pts · 1y
Meltdown mitigations significantly slowed down core duo era machines such as T400/X200 thinkpads. Try running it on a post-meltdown Intel CPU or a post-spectre AMD CPU to see the difference.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
I'm afraid I only have two such devices. One is my daily driver, which cannot run BSD due to software compatibility. The other cannot run BSD due to its unsupported WiFi chipset.