On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:38 PM, M A Young <m.a.young(a)durham.ac.uk> wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> If you could run a few benchmarks between the v6 and v5 spins we'd all be
> *very* interested to know the difference in performance. Even simple stuff
> like time to bzip2 a cached file would be informative.
Here are some very basic benchmark stats
time bzip2 -9 <initramfs-3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64.img >/dev/null
[v6]
real 1m7.734s
user 1m7.540s
sys 0m0.160s
[v5]
real 1m10.920s
user 1m10.650s
sys 0m0.210s
time md5sum initramfs-3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64.img >/dev/null
[v6]
real 0m0.431s
user 0m0.290s
sys 0m0.130s
[v5]
real 0m0.433s
user 0m0.270s
sys 0m0.150s
time sha256sum initramfs-3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64.img >/dev/null
[v6]
real 0m1.393s
user 0m1.240s
sys 0m0.150s
[v5]
real 0m1.436s
user 0m1.350s
sys 0m0.080s
WOW! That's worth all the work!