Re: productivity/khard (or python) seem slow

I run vanilla openBSD 6.5 on oVirt (KVM) with gluster as storage and it seems OK for my needs but I never used khard.
What kind of slowness do you experience?
Maybe I can run some tests and see if the situation is the same on KVM.

Best Regards,
Strahil NikolovOn May 18, 2019 18:39, David Mimms <bsd@mim.ms> wrote:
>
> On 2019.05.17 11:41, Paco Esteban wrote:
> >On Thu, 16 May 2019, Joel Carnat wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu 16/05 08:55, Paco Esteban wrote:
> >> > Can't say about your VM. On my desktop:
> >> >
> >> >   $ time (khard list | wc -l)
> >> >        104
> >> >   ( khard list | wc -l; )  0.51s user 0.25s system 97% cpu 0.779 total
> >> >
> >>
> >> Is this on OpenBSD ? The time output looks different.
> >
> >Of course it is ... (-current though)
> >That should be zsh that uses an internal builtin instead of
> >/usr/bin/time I guess (did not check).
> >
> >Here it is on ksh with base time:
> >
> >  $ time (khard list | wc -l)
> >       104
> >      0m00.81s real     0m00.59s user     0m00.21s system
> >
> >Interestingly a bit slower.
>
> What CPU and storage are you running?
>
> My ThinkPad P50:
> * Intel Xeon E3-1505M @ 2.80GHz
> * 2 x Samsung 960 PRO PCIe NVMe (OpenZFS mirror)
> * O/S: Debian Buster
>
> Results:
> $ time (khard list | wc -l)
> 265
> ( khard list | wc -l; )  0.91s user 0.04s system 100% cpu 0.950 total
>
>
> My ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th gen)
> * Intel Core i7-6600U @ 2.60GHz (Hyper-threading disabled)
> * 1 x Samsung MZ-NLN512 SATA
> * O/S: OpenBSD 6.5 -current
>
> Results:
> $ time (khard list | wc -l)
>      265
> ( khard list | wc -l; )  2.44s user 2.03s system 100% cpu 4.459 total
>
> The OpenZFS mirror is noticeably slower than a single 960 PRO formatted
> as ext4.  Since the X1 has a SATA drive in it, I'll eventually have to
> install OpenBSD on my spare Samsung 960 PRO in order to improve overall
> performance.
>
> I also tested OpenBSD 6.[45] in VMware Workstation Pro on my P50, and
> it ran extremely slow.  So slow that it was unusable.  I figure it's
> not optimized for virtualization?  FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows all run
> fine in my VMware.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Mimms
> https://mim.ms
>