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7 pointsmitchwainer7 comments

This is considered a benchmark and comparison?

Edit: Ok, rather than being an arse, some feedback: The IOWait tidbit was interesting and worth the click on its own.

Build times and bandwidth should vary based on usage on the shared host. Run the tests every 3 hours for 2-3 days and use those results.

More interesting information would consist of what your plan of attack will be for scaling with more power/storage/etc. If necessity dictates the need for more, will it be as easy as a few clicks (and $$$$) with DO as compared to Azure/Amazon?

Hey,

Martin from Codified here. For what it's worth, I didn't submit this article to HN so surprised it got here - it was meant to be a quick overview of IO issues on shared hosts and the impact it can make.

I ran the tests a few times over a few days, pulling from the latest git source. We use a build script from a highly tuned bootstrapped mono install to build, which I will update the blog article.

I'll also publish a new article about how we build Mono, if it's of interest to people.

Can you please post the benchmark technique to allow for reproduction?

My colleagues and I often use client's hardware rather than our own to work on their project. The mono source sounds like a good stress test to guague the pain and implement preventative upgrades early in the piece.

For comparison's sake, `time make` of mono-3.2.1 from tarball on a 2012 Macbook Pro Retina / 2.6GHz / 16 GB RAM / 512 GB SSD returns:

    make  583.12s user 77.90s system 98% cpu 11:11.99 total

This seems slow compared to digital ocean. I wonder if there's something I'm not setting. My settings per [1] were:

    ./configure --prefix=/Users/joshka/Code/mono --enable-nls=no --build=i386-apple-darwin11.2.0

[1]: http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono_on_OSX

I'm not sure about OS X - I use the Xamarin provided builds for that. But I'll post our build script for Linux up soon.

Those micro articles about DO start to annoy as much as 'github down' ones. Three up-votes and already on front page... Something is not right here. I have nothing against DO (I use them too), but if site is on front page I would like to see much more detailed benchmarks.

SSD VPS benchmarks: http://serverbear.com/benchmarks/ssd-vps

and DigitalOcean benchmarks :http://serverbear.com/9806/digitalocean#view-benchmarks

That's a lot of effort to determine that compiling a large source tree is way faster with a SSD.

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