diff --git a/Performance.md b/Performance.md index 5f51826..aa2e492 100644 --- a/Performance.md +++ b/Performance.md @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ (See also copious notes and data about performance of older versions of Tahoe-LAFS, archived at Performance/Old.) +In September 2011 Brian Warner did thorough benchmarks on a four-machine grid of dedicated physical hardware which wasn't doing any other tasks except for running the benchmarks: + In late 2010 Kyle Markley did some benchmarking of what were then the release candidates for Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.0. This helped us catch two major performance regressions in Brian's New Downloader and helped make Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.0 into an excellent new release (see epic ticket #1170 for mind-numbing details). Kyle also contributed code for his benchmarking scripts (in Perl), but nobody to my knowledge has yet tried to re-use that script. *