24 May 2012 23:01
Phoronix and Hammer - a followup
Justin Sherrill <justin <at> shiningsilence.com>
2012-05-24 21:01:06 GMT
2012-05-24 21:01:06 GMT
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(Continue reading)
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