Re: help over "rsync vs cvsupd perfmance"

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-12-25 20:43, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Mon, December 25, 2006 10:12 am, Saverio Iacovelli wrote:
> > I find, in the DragonFly project page, the following
> > matter:
> >
> > - Benchmark rsync vs. cvsupd for getting source code
> > updates
> >
> > Ok, I would like to test benchmark, but I need help to
> > choose software for benckmarking and help to formulate
> > test cases.
> >
> > Someone has suggestions?
>
> I think I was the one who came up with that idea.  Testing it would be
> relatively simple.  Set up two machines, networked together.  Set up
> cvsupd and rsyncd on one machine, both using the same files as a
> repository.  (all of DragonFly src would bet a good example)  On the other
> machine, bring all those files down with rsync, and time how long it
> takes.  Delete the files, and do it again with cvsup.  Repeat both a few
> times just in case something happens to change the numbers during a run.

Perhaps it should be included in the test an "incremental" update, like 
you have the code for DFly 1.6-RELEASE and update those to latest 
PREVIEW. I think this is a quite common scenario, probably more common 
(and thus important), than starting from scratch.

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Erik Wikström