From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 23 20:25:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: performance@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAD916A41A for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:25:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80BC13C474 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:25:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A549046BCA; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:25:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:25:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Erik Cederstrand In-Reply-To: <4797A245.7080202@cederstrand.dk> Message-ID: <20080123202433.E63024@fledge.watson.org> References: <4796C717.9000507@cederstrand.dk> <20080123193400.N63024@fledge.watson.org> <4797A245.7080202@cederstrand.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: performance@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Performance Tracker project update X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:25:29 -0000 On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: >> >> This looks really exciting! >> >> Do you plan to add a way so that people can submit performance data? >> I.e., if I set up my own test box and want to submit a result once a week >> for that, will there be a way for me to get set up with a >> username/password, submit configuration information, and then automatically >> submit test result datapoints? Especially if I can specify both the X and >> Y coordinates so that I can backdate results should I go back and generate >> test results for old kernels? > > The website and benchmarking slave talk to a PostgreSQL database. It's > definitely possible and part of the design to have multiple computers > participating in a distributed fashion, although it's also possible to run > the setup locally and privately for more ad-hoc testing purposes. Sounds good. > I think it's best if participating machines supply data regularly for an > extended period of time. Single or infrequent data points for a specific > configuration don't make much sense. We need to compare apples to apples. Yes -- I was mostly thinking about backdating in order to play "catchup" when a new benchmark is introduced. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge