Hello Zafer,

You might want to:

* use a release tarfile, as the -current one is constantly changing.
  this will make comparisons with other people's results more controlled

* use identical hardware when comparing different operating systems.

* specify what filesystem you compared ffs to.  (ext3?  reiserfs?  etc)

Cheers,

Ben

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:54:59PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> Hello Newsgroup ! 
>  
> Is our Filesystem (FFS) slow ? 
>  
> I did some sort of benchmark with taking the time that is needed to unpack 
> the current pkgsrc.tar.gz. 
>  
> This is the Command I used: 
> date > date.txt && tar xvfz pkgsrc.tar.gz && date >> date.txt 
>  
> This are the Results (all i386): 
> 114 Seconds on a 1.6.1 ffs + softdeps on 120 GB ide Harddisk 
> 219 Seconds on a 2.99.10 ffs + softdeps on a 40 GB HDD 
> 185 Seconds on a 2.0E ffs with a 120 Raid 1 HDD 
> 30  Seconds on a SuSE Linux 8.2 with scsi 
> 30 Seconds on a SuSE Linux 8.1 with scsi