[Swan-dev] Test Suite: speed effects of hardware differences

[Andrew Cagney]

Another might be to try building from /tmp - there's a significant amount
of data being written?  vs debug.log

On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 at 14:18, Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Set KVM_LOCALDIR=/tmp/pool ?
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 at 09:23, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
>
>> I have two similar machines for running tests.
>> - ThinkCentre M93p Tiny
>> - i5-4570T CPU @ 2.90GHz (Haswell generation)
>> - as far as I know, all available firmware updates for security (i.e.
>>   slowdowns)
>> - Fedora 34 (arrived at by many upgrades)
>>
>> They differ in:
>> - the first has a 2.5" HDD and 16G of RAM.
>> - the second has a SATA SSD and 8G of RAM
>>
>> A complete kvm-check took
>> - on the first  6:10:46 elapsed time
>> - on the second 5:25:39 elapsed time
>>
>> The first system takes about 14% more time than the second.
>>
>> I suspect that the majority of the effect was disk speed.
>> I would have guessed that disk speed would have mattered more.
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