From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 01:31:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D43B1065675; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:31:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206F18FC17; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1RdtyT-0004ah-5b>; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:31:05 +0100 Received: from e178027232.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.27.232] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1RdtyT-0008GR-0C>; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:31:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4EF3D9D7.5010907@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:31:03 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd References: <001CED31-FDD0-4CB1-B972-2F2344EEB9D3@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig67F64EE14A43A4461166E561" X-Originating-IP: 85.178.27.232 Cc: Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Erik Cederstrand Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server 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: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:31:06 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig67F64EE14A43A4461166E561 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/22/11 17:56, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Guys, girls, fuzzy creatures, >=20 > This is by far the best example of a constructive email in this entire = thread. Agreed! >=20 > If people would like to help, Erik here is exactly the kind of person > with exactly the kind of software that needs a hand. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. :) :-) >=20 > 2c, >=20 >=20 > Adrian >=20 >=20 > On 22 December 2011 03:21, Erik Cederstrand 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 offe= r help if someone wants to pick up the project. >> >> For those who haven't heard about it, it's a system designed specifica= lly to track performance of FreeBSD over time by comparing revisions of F= reeBSD, everything else being equal. It consists of a tinderbox-like buil= d script for a build server, a script to install FreeBSD and run benchmar= ks 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: conv= ert 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 benchmark= s, 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/trac= ker.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@free= bsd.org" > _______________________________________________ --------------enig67F64EE14A43A4461166E561 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----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----- --------------enig67F64EE14A43A4461166E561--