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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. I'm afraid! by Parker+Lewis · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The only required dependencies for the Phoronix Test Suite on Linux systems is PHP 5.x CLI"

  2. Re:Speed - running off the CD by roger_that · · Score: 5, Informative

    Once the test is loaded, it runs from memory, and CD speed will not (should not) affect the test results.

  3. Re:Wrong benchmarks by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · · Score: 3, Informative

    So what's stopping you? :-) They give instructions on how to do this here. The only thing it probably won't do well is bootup testing, but then you probably want something like Bootchart for that.

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  4. VirtualBox by owlman17 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds great! I'll download it and try to run it in a VM.

    1. 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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  5. Great! by Simian+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now anyone can conduct highly inaccurate bench-marking tests and publish the results every few months!

  6. 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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