What Does Linux Benchmarking Look Like?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: What Does Linux Benchmarking Look Like?

What does benchmarking a Dell Inspiron Mini 9, a Radeon HD 4890 graphics card with Intel Core i7, and dual quad-core AMD Opterons look like? Well, if the systems are running Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, or Mac OS X, it can look like this: Do you see any of those systems out in the lemon grove? Nope. As was shared earlier this month, with Phoronix Test Suite 2.0 (a.k.a...

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[d2kx]

Nice pictures :) Hope you had fun with whatever you were doing there.

[curaga]

Have fun in Italy Michael :)

[superppl]

Couldn't help but think that that game has some awesome graphics! :D

[GreatWalrus]

Wow, I have a new love for Linux Benchmarking!!! :p

Hope you're enjoying your trip Michael! :D

[Kano]

Looks nice, hopefully you don't forget the issues i found with PTS lately.

a) vdrift preconfig - shader = false

in order to benchmark fglrx drivers which lockup if shaders are used. Still waiting to see a fixed fglrx driver as it sucks when you run a suite and then the system locks up. Nothing else you expect from ATI cards, do you ;)

b) More depends:

b1) byte -> time package (check /usr/bin/time)

b2) build-imagemagick -> minimum libperl-dev

c) Some checks for invalid benchmarks (highly required!)

c1) check size of time files used for compression -> leads to wrong results for example with 7zip compression when hd is full.

c2) Check error level after make for compile benchmark - currently bad builds are of course faster than correct ones - just like that
build-imagemagick bench which could not link against perl and is of course faster that way.

[bugmenot]

Have fun in Italy Michael :)

That's Naples, probably one of the islands, Ischia is my bet. Am I right?

[Michael]

That's Naples, probably one of the islands, Ischia is my bet. Am I right?

Close, but not quite. The lemon grove and one of the pictures is from Sorrento and the island pics are of Capri.