help over "rsync vs cvsupd perfmance"

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sat, December 30, 2006 2:22 pm, Saverio Iacovelli wrote:
> I have two questions about benchmark:
> 1) Must I use tools to measure net performance during
> updating operation with cvsup or rsync?
> 2) What are important informations which I must to
> weigh? What are informations that it needs?

1: You can measure network performance, but it's not needed.  Mostly, you
just need to measure the difference in time required for cvsup and rsync
to do the same task.

2: Time taken, as mentioned above, is the important thing.  If desired,
you could measure memory and CPU usage, though I don't know a consistent
method for that.

Going back to the other question you posted - you were asking if it was
possible to build version 1.6 on a 1.7 system, if I read it right, which I
don't think would be needed.  You're just timing the download process, not
the build process.