Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:31:03 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server Message-ID: <4EF3D9D7.5010907@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=jRwprjW%2BKCQ%2Bs7f2J-tFQvZbJ2CwkA_9rGTO5c6JkMw@mail.gmail.com> References: <bfjsm0n2j5fie38pfmjaqbyf.1324493312789@email.android.com> <001CED31-FDD0-4CB1-B972-2F2344EEB9D3@cederstrand.dk> <CAJ-Vmo=jRwprjW%2BKCQ%2Bs7f2J-tFQvZbJ2CwkA_9rGTO5c6JkMw@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 <erik@cederstrand.dk> 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_______________________________________________ >> freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO89nXAAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8XZsIAIZ/K7IBO87qbjhuwQ/oAXzZ Gn5mI/Djv2bteW4trvGRHoB1xg9rG81tXU2ONgOhVRvTgEFd2pXDNU1Fr0llF/5N raVPBr4d7+WprNBykYhdYdj/XrNHLZL8PrAz5y1R8tr29xpxzJaB8O5dRWS7rv4u VB/JVLFdqs7y8POY3TrGpuQmIWSJAXYjjOSHLQ1JjmFf3/DfRV3qqD70298G5+Pi bzVZgqDuDMdKpj8pe+1Wt2cCaWKsDO7owlEJuUu5765IuhGZqSUdtlv8nnP5C5Sp 5wgGq/E1m/FWYbF/zLFXtNBUuYnydZAF/6gloCrd3E1RP+93fHeaU7HDp1n4dxA= =Sv+f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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