Disk-perf-Git-and-pnpm: aims to prove that something is wrong with APFS on macOS

1 month ago 2

This repo aims to prove that something is wrong with APFS on macOS, but is also a good stress test in general when changing machine tooling that wants to oberve fs events (such as security tooling / EDR / virus scanners / etc).

Steps:

Setup
Gather Results
Report / PR with your Results ❤️

have node @ >= 22.11 have pnpm @ >= 10.2

(if you have proto (with auto-install) or volta installed, these versions will be selected for you)

git clone https://github.com/NullVoxPopuli/disk-perf-git-and-pnpm.git cd disk-perf-git-and-pnpm pnpm install # Fill the cache so we don't hit the network during testing

Since you've installed all the dependencies already, we can start with the clean test:

time ( git clean -Xfd; git clean -fd )

Windows Powershell:

(Measure-Command { git clean -Xfd; git clean -fd }).ToString()

And then once that finishes, we can run the install test:

Windows Powershell:

(Measure-Command { pnpm install }).ToString()

If using zsh

your time will be total.

0.01s user 0.00s system 94% cpu 0.007 total #. ^ this number

and round to the tenths decimal place

if using bash

your time will be real.

real 2.02s # this number user 0.00s sys 0.01s

and round to the tenths decimal place

How to find your disk info

Apple Menu
"About this Mac" (a window appears)
"More Info..." (a window appears)
scroll down and click "System Report..." (a window appears)
in the left nav of this third window, click "NVMExpress"

PR your Results back to this Repo

and interact with the results here

Date CPU RAM (GB) Clean (s) Install (s) OS FileSystem Disk Notable Software Changes

2025-02-07	AMD Ryzen 5 7640U 12 Core	92	6.8	5.9	Ubuntu 24.04.1	Ext4	WD Black SN850 500GB
2025-02-24	AMD Ryzen 5 7640U throttle to ~550Mhz	92	56	44	Ubuntu 24.10	Ext4	WD Black SN850 500GB
2025-02-07	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12/24 Core	64	6.0	4.3	Ubuntu 24.04.1	Ext4	Samsung SSD 980 Pro 2TB
2025-02-07	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12/24 Core	64	3.3	4.0	Ubuntu 24.04.1	tmpfs (ramdisk)	G.Skill F5-6000J3040G32G
2025-02-09	Apple M1 Pro	16	42.2	44.0	macOS 15.3	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP0512R 500GB
2025-02-08	Apple M1 Max	64	31.5	44.2	macOS 14.7.3	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP1024R 1TB
2025-02-08	Apple M4	16	29.6	31.4	macOS 15.2	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP1024Z 1TB
2025-02-09	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8 Core	32	17.1	16.1	Ubuntu 22.04.3	Ext4	Corsair MP600 PRO LPX
2025-02-09	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8 Core	32	65.5	42.3	Windows 10 Pro 22H2	NTFS	Corsair MP600 PRO LPX
2025-02-09	AMD Ryzen 5 7800X3D 8 Core	64	69.5	73.3	Windows 11 Pro 23H2	NTFS	WD Black SN850x 2TB
2025-02-09	AMD Ryzen 5 7800X3D 8 Core	64	23.7	19.0	W11 Pro 23H2 / WSL2 / Ubuntu 24.04	Ext4	WD Black SN850x 2TB
2025-02-10	Intel i5-1145G7 8 Core	32	1.9	15.3	Debian Trixie	Ext4	BC711 NVMe SK hynix 512GB
2025-02-12	Apple M1 Max	32	71.4	87.7	macOS 14.6.1	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP2048R 2TB
2025-02-12	Apple M4 Pro (14 Cores)	48	30.1	65.1	macOS 15.3	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP2048Z 2TB
2025-02-13	Apple M1 Ultra	64	45.2	137.5	macOS 15.3	APFS	APPLE SSD AP1024R 1TB
2025-02-14	Apple M2 Max (6 vCPU)	16	3.2	12	Ubuntu 24.04	Ext4	APPLE SSD AP1024Z	Parallels VM
2025-02-14	Apple M2 Max (6 vCPU)	16	2.8	11.9	Ubuntu 24.04	Ext4 LVM2 Encrypted	APPLE SSD AP1024Z	Parallels VM
2025-02-14	Apple M2 Max (6 vCPU)	16	1.6	10.7	Ubuntu 24.04	tmpfs (ramdisk)	Hynix LPDDR5 / Virtual RAM	Parallels VM
2025-02-15	Apple M1 Pro	32	44.5	50.2	macOS 15.3	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP0512R 500GB
2025-02-19	Apple M1	16	37.8	33.3	macOS 15.3.1	APFS (Encypted)	APPLE SSD AP0512Q 500GB
2025-02-19	Apple M1 Pro	16	59.4	69.1	macOS 14.7.3	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP1024R 1TB
2025-02-21	Apple M3	16	36.23	30.3	macOS 15.3	APFS	APPLE SSD AP0256Z 256GB
2025-02-20	Apple M4 Max (16 Cores)	128	36.7	64.5	macOS 15.2	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP2048Z 2TB
2025-02-20	Apple M3	24	46.6	44.6	macOS ??	APFS	APPLE SSD AP1024Z 1TB
2025-02-21	Intel Core i7 14700K (20 Cores)	64	3.1	13.8	W10 22H2 / WSL2 / Ubuntu 24.04	Ext4	WD Black 2TB SN850
2025-02-22	Apple M3 Pro	18	37.7	40	macOS 15.3	APFS	APPLE SSD AP1024Z 1TB
2025-02-24	Apple M2 Pro	32	34.6	32.0	macOS 13.6	APFS	APPLE SSD AP0512Z
2025-02-25	Apple M3	16	34.213	27.851	macOS 15.3.1	APFS	APPLE SSD AP1024Z
2025-02-25	Apple M3 Pro (12 Core, 6p6e)	36	47.8	52.6	macOS 14.7.4	APFS	APPLE SSD AP0512Z 500GB
2025-02-25	Apple M3 Pro (12 Core, 6p6e)	36	32	53.3	macOS 14.7.4	APFS	APPLE SSD AP0512Z 500GB	Spotlight disabled
2025-02-25	Apple M3 Pro (12 Core, 6p6e)	36	26.3	19.9	macOS 14.7.4	APFS	APPLE SSD AP0512Z 500GB	Spotlight disabled, csrutil disable
2025-02-26	Apple M2 Max (12 Core, 8p4e)	32	41.4	39.8	macOS 15.3.1	APFS (Encrypted)	APPLE SSD AP1024Z 1TB	Spotlight disabled, Kandji, SentinelOne
2025-02-26	Apple M4 Pro (14 Cores) (6 core vCPU)	6	2.5	16.9	Ubuntu 24.10	Ext4 Unencrypted	APPLE SSD AP2048Z 2TB	UTM VM
2025-02-28	Apple M2 Max (6 vCPU)	16	11.9	15.7	Ubuntu 24.04.2	Ext4 LVM2 Encrypted	APPLE SSD AP1024Z	Parallels VM, SentinelOne
2025-02-28	Apple M2 Max (6 vCPU)	16	9.1	13.3	Ubuntu 24.04.2	tmpfs (ramdisk)	Hynix LPDDR5 / Virtual RAM	Parallels VM, SentinelOne
2025-04-26	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz	32	103.98	116.62	macOS 15.4.1	APFS (Encrypted)	Apple SSD AP1024N
2025-04-27	Apple M4 Pro (14 Core, 10p4e)	48	64.48	145.40	macOS 15.3.2	APFS (Encrypted)	Apple SSD AP1024Z
2025-04-27	Apple M4 Pro (14 Core, 10p4e)	48	3.209	17.302	Ubuntu 24.04.2	btrfs	Apple SSD AP1024Z	Ubuntu machine running in OrbStack
2025-10-06	Apple M2 Max (12 Core, 8p4e)	32	46.730	54.603	macOS 15.5	APFS (Encrypted)	Apple SSD AP1024Z 1TB	Kandji, Code42, SentinelOne, tested in excluded directory