Justin Sherrill | 24 May 2012 23:01
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Phoronix and Hammer - a followup

A while back, Phoronix published benchmarks for DragonFly 3.0.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3MDA

They showed generally good numbers, but the disk test showed a
startling 250% DROP in disk speed with Hammer between 2.10 and 3.0.
The test is unpacking a certain version of the Linux kernel - pretty
simple test.  That kind of drop would be driving everyone crazy, but I
wanted to put some numbers behind saying "OMG that benchmark for my
favorite operating system is wrong and you are mean!"

There is bug 2288, which shows a small slowdown, but nothing of this magnitude:

http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2288

So, I've been running the same test as the Phoronix one, at random
time on shiningsilence.com, before and after upgrading it from
DragonFly 2.10 to DragonFly 3.0.  Here's the command:

/bin/rm -rf linux-2.6.32; /usr/bin/time -o notes.txt -a tar xf
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2

Here's the results, averaged:

39.791 - 2.10 real 	
28.509 - 2.10 user	
03.529 - 2.10 sys		

44.829 - 3.0 real	
26.137 - 3.0 user	
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