BENCHMARKS

BENCHMARK no.1
==============

This benchmark compares spkg with pkgtools and plain tar.

Hardware setup used:

CPU: Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz
MEM: 512MB SDRAM 133MHz
HDD1: Seagate Baracuda 7200.9 80GB
HDD2: Samsung SP2002H 20GB 7200 rpm
OS: 'vanilla' linux 2.6.17.2, slackware-current

Benchmarking methods:

Before each 'install' benchmark clean ext2 filesystem will be created on
HDD2 using following command:
  mke2fs /dev/hdb

Before each benchmarks caches will be flushed using:
  echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

All services that could affect result of benchmarks will be stopped.

Install speed
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Install/extract all official slackware-current (2006-07-11) packages
from the installation packages on HDD1 to the root directory on HDD2.

1)
  spkg -r /data -i */*.tgz

2)
  installpkg -root /data */*.tgz

3) 
  for f in */*.tgz ; do
    tar xf $f -C /data
  done

Remove speed
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Remove all 'kde*' packages from the system. ;-)

1)
  spkg -r /data -d `spkg -r /data -l 'kde*'`

2)
  ROOT=/data removepkg `spkg -r /data -l 'kde*'`

Results
~~~~~~~

Install speed:
  1) real 12m 36s, user 2m 3s, sys 51s
  2) real 23m 41s, user 15m 31s, 5m 28s
  3) real 13m 17s, user 1m 46s, sys 56s

Remove speed:
  1) real 1m 29s, user 3.4s, sys 3.9s
  2) real 27m 49s, user 19m 46s, sys 6m 30s

BENCHMARK no.2
==============

Install Slackware 10.1.0

cmd: ipkg -r /root {a,ap,d,l,n}/*.tgz
time: 3m41s, 54s, 38s

cmd: installpkg -root /root {a,ap,d,l,n}/*.tgz
time: 16m4s, 7m42s, 3m11s

Upgrade to Slackware 10.2.0

cmd: upkg -r /root {a,ap,d,l,n}/*.tgz
time: 4m39s, 0m50s, 0m40s

cmd: ROOT=/root upgradepkg {a,ap,d,l,n}/*.tgz
time: 33m50s, 18m30s, 6m45s

Remove d series packages

cmd: ROOT=/root removepkg `cat d-list`
time: 6m6s, 3m43s, 1m3s

cmd: rpkg -r /root `cat pkglist`
time: 11.8s, 0.67s, 1.18s