Battlefield 2 Patch
Battlefield 2 uses a typical approach to game patching by integrating the new patch data into the existing game data as opposed to dumping a patch file into the game-installation directory. This usage model results in a lot of disk activity and generally long patch times. We applied BF2's 500 MB large patch 1.41 to our installation (18.3 GB transferred, 77% write).
Software Compilation
We compiled a large open source C# .NET project and measured the time it took to create the release build.