1 Linux kernel compilation benchmark, measured as wall-clock time.
4 [1] time tar -jxf /scratch/linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2
5 [2] time find linux-2.6.37 -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 sha1sum >/dev/null # checksum 35187 files, 392.9 MiB total
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26 [1] 30.465s (including final sync; decompression: 0m15.865s)
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30 Local disk on c09-45, mount with -o sync
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36 BlueSky, US-West, range requests
40 [2] 0m31.590s (remount, then immediately run)
41 [2] 25m48.819s (data cache flushed, inodes still cached in memory)
42 [2] (proxy entirely restarted: no data cached)