Comment 826 for bug 500069

Can 'someone' please open a bounty on creation of a VM test case, f.e. with `vagrant` or `phoronix test suite`?
Basically, a way to reproduce and quantify the perceived/actual performance difference between
> Linux 2.6.17 Released 17 June, 2006
and
> Linux 5.0 Released Sun, 3 Mar 2019
…

(In reply to Alex Efros from comment #666)
> Not as bad as years ago […]
> And that's on powerful and modern enough system with
> kernel 4.19.27, CPU i7-2600K @ 4.5GHz, RAM 24GB, and HDD 3TB […]
> This is annoying, and I remember time before
> 12309 when rtorrent without any throttling won't make mplayer to freeze on
> less powerful hardware.

Oh yeah, this... i can clearly remember back then when on a then mid-range machine with a lot of compiling (gentoo => 100% cpu �[U+1F923]�) and filesystem work, VLC used to play an HD video stream even under heavy load without any hiccups and micro-stuttering.. It was impressive at the time.. and then.. it broke �[U+1F928]�