On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Martin Husemann wrote:

[...]
> On nfs: /usr/bin/time  dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=1m count=64
> 64+0 records in
> 64+0 records out
> 67108864 bytes transferred in 123.054 secs (545361 bytes/sec)
>      123.67 real         0.03 user        70.36 sys
>
> On local scsi disk: /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=1m count=64
> 64+0 records in
> 64+0 records out
> 67108864 bytes transferred in 98.470 secs (681515 bytes/sec)
>       98.86 real         0.04 user        88.95 sys

 	I wonder how extracting a reasonable sized tarfile would compare,
 	or (the most relevant test of all), building a package.

 	It *might* be faster building with src on nfs and /tmp on
 	local disk. Squint a lot and pretend the nfs mount is another
 	spindle :)

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