On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Joel Carnat <j...@carnat.net> wrote:
> Hello, > > I was really annoyed by the numbers I got. So I did the testings again. > Using > a brand new VM. Being really careful on what I was doing and writing it > down > after each command run. I did the testings using 6.1 and 6.2-current, in > case > there were some changes. There weren't. > > First of all. There isn't 10x difference between PLAIN and ENCRYPTED. > I believe I have mixed numbers from my various testings. I also believe > Cloud > providers don't/can't guarantee throughput on disk. I noticed variations > from > 1 to 4 on the same VM between 2 days... whatever the OS was. > This is why you *NEVER* run benchmark tests for OS on VMs. Unless you are benchmarking the VM system, it's basically worthless. You spent a lot of time and effort - but the results are pretty much useless because it cannot be duplicated.
