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Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm

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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).

The Test

Steps:

Setup Gather Results Report / PR with your Results ❤️

Setup

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

Gather Results

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

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