Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

On 12/22/11 17:56, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Guys, girls, fuzzy creatures,
> 
> This is by far the best example of a constructive email in this entire thread.

Agreed!

> 
> If people would like to help, Erik here is exactly the kind of person
> with exactly the kind of software that needs a hand.
> 
> I think enough philosophizing has been done - now we have questions
> that need answering; theories that need testing. And that requires,
> you know, coding. :)

Many thanks for that piece of software. And many thanks to Erik for the
thesis as well.

> 
> The best thing right now would be for *BSD people to pick up the
> Phronix test suite, try to compile/run it, and provide feedback. Do
> your own benchmarks on your own hardware and report back the results.
> That's how we fix the "benchmarking problem." We don't fix it by
> armchair philosophy, we fix it by getting our hands dirty. :)

:-)

> 
> 2c,
> 
> 
> Adrian
> 
> 
> On 22 December 2011 03:21, Erik Cederstrand <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Den 21/12/2011 kl. 19.48 skrev Alexander Leidinger:
>>
>>> And related to the subject: wasn't it you who developed the automatic benchmarking stuff? If yes, why not make it available? If you don't have he resources, I offer my help to make it available somewhere.
>>
>> Yes, that's me. I'm mostly out of time right now, but I'd like to offer help if someone wants to pick up the project.
>>
>> For those who haven't heard about it, it's a system designed specifically to track performance of FreeBSD over time by comparing revisions of FreeBSD, everything else being equal. It consists of a tinderbox-like build script for a build server, a script to install FreeBSD and run benchmarks on at least one slave, and a database-backed website to aggregate and visualize results.
>>
>> The framework does work as-is, but it really needs to be updated: convert the scripts to use the SVN repo instead of CVS, improve visualization and search on the web fronted, and improve the benchmarking script so it's easier to extend. I don't have hardware available to run the benchmarks, but I think there's hardware available in the FreeBSD cluster.
>>
>> Here's a link to the source code: http://dev.affect-it.dk/tracker.tgz
>> And to my thesis describing how it works: http://dev.affect-it.dk/tracker.pdf
>>
>> Just send me a mail if you're interested.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erik_______________________________________________
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