From 2734186347d54f37484f1b4c0b3f3675cdd779f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabio Rehm Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 03:09:28 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] Benchmarks --- docs/benchmarks.md | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/benchmarks.md diff --git a/docs/benchmarks.md b/docs/benchmarks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0fa86d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/benchmarks.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# Benchmarks + +During the early days of this plugin, [@fgrehm](https://github.com/fgrehm) wrote +a [blog post](http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2013/05/24/stop-wasting-bandwidth-with-vagrant-cachier#show_me_the_numbers) +with some benchmarks on the time that was cut down by using the plugin. If you +are interested on the numbers only, the projects tested were one of vagrant-lxc's +Ubuntu [dev box](https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc/wiki/Development#using-virtualbox-for-development), +[rails-dev-box](https://github.com/rails/rails-dev-box), his own [rails-base-box](https://github.com/fgrehm/rails-base-box) +and Discourse's [dev box](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/Vagrantfile) + +
+ +| | First provision | Second provision | Diff. | APT cache | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| rails-dev-box | 4m45s | 3m20s | ~29% | 66mb | +| rails-base-box | 11m56s | 7m54s | ~34% | 77mb | +| vagrant-lxc | 10m16s | 5m9s | ~50% | 124mb | +| discourse | 1m41s | 49s | ~51% | 62mb | +
+_Please note that the tests were made on May 24th 2013 and nowadays they might +be a bit different_ + +
+Some people have shared their numbers on Twitter and had experienced even better +results: + +

Holy cow... If you dig Vagrant, and like time - you need Vagrant Cachier. 60% speed increase for me. https://t.co/225jRH7bDa @vagrantup

— Chris Rickard (@chrisrickard) November 12, 2013
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vagrant-cachier saved 3:20 off my #vagrant #provisioning http://t.co/VzRRu1QEwL

— Joe Ferguson (@svpernova09) November 11, 2013
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Tested vagrant-cachier. Saved 60% of vagrant up time installing 10 rpms with chef. Pretty awesome. Check it out! github.com/fgrehm/vagrant…

— Miguel. (@miguelcnf) June 9, 2013
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vagrant-cachier took my vagrant spin up from 30 to 5 minutes and reduced my caffeine intake by 3 cups http://t.co/V0uYpr3U0y

— Russell Cardullo (@russellcardullo) June 7, 2013