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Date: Sun,  4 May 2014 19:51:07 -0700
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go 1.3b1 cmd/pack test takes too long
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Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> once said:
> is anyone else seeing similar results for cmd/pack?
>
> % go test
> PASS
> ok   cmd/pack 172.505s
>
> this is on an atom (d525 @ 1.8ghz, 4gb). same test on an arm (quad core a9
> @ 1.7ghz, 2gb, linux 3.8) takes much less time:
>
> % go test
> PASS
> ok      cmd/pack    20.872s

Your numbers don't look entirely abnormal. That test issues
over a million small writes. (Although it really should be
using bufio).

How is your system set up? Are you getting your fs from
the network? The Plan 9 disk file systems are pretty slow
even when used locally.

  Anthony