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Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the medium-infrastructure dept.

Bitnit writes "Phoronix has released a major update to their automated Linux benchmarking software, the Phoronix Test Suite, and more interestingly they have released their own distribution that's designed for hardware testing and benchmarking on Linux. With PTS Desktop Live they provide this Linux distribution that's to run only from a live environment off a DVD / USB key and then allows their benchmarking software to run — and only that — on this standardized software stack, which makes hardware comparisons a lot easier."

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  1. Problems... by Darkness404 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A lot of speed issues have to do with drivers and not the actual hardware itself. I wonder if this takes that into the equation.

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    1. Re:Problems... by jd · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, to an extent you do. A bad driver is much easier to upgrade/replace than bad hardware, especially if the hardware is built into the motherboard. In the case of audio (a classic Linux problem), if ALSA has a bad/missing driver you are still free to use OSS, and vice versa. If X has a bad video driver, there may be one in GGI or in the Linux framebuffer that you can use. On the other hand, if the chipset is crud, all the software options in the world won't help you.

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  2. Re:Speed - running off the CD by Aim+Here · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would it invalidate them? The results will be slower for everyone, since the LiveCD would standardise the software environment.

    Anyways, it only matters if the suite reads from the disk during a test for some boneheaded reason.

  3. Re:VirtualBox by Cormacus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    nooo . . . but it would give you an idea of how much of a performance hit you take when running in a VM. Which could be interesting in and of itself.

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