Re: Performance degradation over time on VAX...

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 08:32:37PM +0000, Ken Wellsch wrote:
> From my testing this morning, I found that with NetBSD 7 and onward,
> the boot  loader was dramatically faster and this remained so up to
> 11rc5, FWIW.

We switched the ISOs from a ramdisk based install kernel to root-on-cd9660.
This makes the loaded kernel a lot smaller and also requires far fewer
RAM.

And there was some issue with the bootloader reading a compressed
kernel in libsa, which I am not sure we ever resolved completely.

Both of this do not affect the performance after installation.

Martin