How to use Phronix Test Suite ?

[Dark_Star]

How do I install P test Suite in Ubuntu 8.04 ? And how do I use it ? Is it necessary to run games to get the FPS ? Or it will give an assumption seeing the secs ?

Regards

[Melcar]

First make sure you have PHP5-CLI and PHP5-GD installed. Then cd to the pts directory (or wherever you saved the files to) and run it from the terminal:

./phoronix-test-suite That will give you all the available commands. There are several commands you can append to that initial call, like lists-test and list-suites, which will give you a read-out of all the available benchmarks. You install benchmarks with the install argument. Ex.

Install Universe suite:

./phoronix-test-suite install universeEverything will be automatically downloaded and installed, with all dependencies resolved automatically. You're going to need a rather fast internet connection since some of the programs are rather large. After it installs you can run it with the run argument:

./phoronix-test-suite run universe

[Dark_Star]

Just 1 question .? Where the files will get installed ? Can I delete the extracted folder after installation :) will ask if I have some problems :)

[Michael]

Files by default are installed to ~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/, but you can change that location in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml

[Dark_Star]

Another question.. will the installation download the full nexuiz and quake game :"O

[Melcar]

For Quake you obviously will need game files from the disk. The same thing for Doom 3. Nexuiz is free, so the whole thing will be downloaded and can be run without restrictions.

[Dark_Star]

You are not getting my point.. the installation of Phoronix Test Suite download the s/w for test.. I want to ask that will it download the whole game or I have to do that ?

[Michael]

Dark_Star:

We cannot legally support having PTS download the entire ET:QW or Quake 4 game. It will download the updates for the game, but you have to copy over the game files from the DVD/CDs you purchased. For all free software tests, it downloads everything and will get you going.

[Dark_Star]

Is it possible to select/deselect a particular packages while installation ? Some packages are too big and i don't have very fast net connection ?

[Michael]

Is it possible to select/deselect a particular packages while installation ? Some packages are too big and i don't have very fast net connection ?

Just not run those tests then? If one of the packages is too big to download, then you just can't run that test. Alternatively, you could download the packages elsewhere and then use the make-download-cache feature.

[Dark_Star]

ANy idea what are main dependencies for compiling except GCC and G++.. Some compilation ended with error !

[uncle_fungus]

What test were you trying to install?

[Dark_Star]

All the tests as told.. :rolleyes:

[uncle_fungus]

No, I meant which tests are the ones that fail to compile?

And can you provide the output.

[Dark_Star]

Well there were some tests/ Apart from that Nevuiz download is too big.. Can't you guys in the next release provide an option to select which test we want to install !:confused: It would be great if you kindly do so :)

[uncle_fungus]

You can, just use "install <test_name>"

./phoronix-test-suite install memory-bandwidth


Will download about 9kb and then install the memory-bandwidth test only.

[Dark_Star]

Thanks :) from where I can get the names ?

[uncle_fungus]

To show the individual tests:

./phoronix-test-suite list-tests

To show the suites:

./phoronix-test-suite list-suites

If you run ./phoronix-test-suite with no arguments it will list most of the options with a short description.

[Dark_Star]

Thanks :) But when I install a particular s/w the test didn't run !

[Michael]

Thanks :) But when I install a particular s/w the test didn't run !

Can you elaborate on that?

[Dark_Star]

I install Mem Test, Super P1, Ram test .. Then I navigate to home/shashwat/.phoronix-test-suite and open termianl changed the directory to the same.. and did ./phoronix-test-suite and got error . No directory.. Then I did ./phoronix-test-suite run super-p1 . .Same error//

[Michael]

Where are you extracting the phoronix-test-suite-0.7.0.tar.gz folder to? You need to run ,/phoronix-test-suite there and not the ~/.phoronix-test-suite user folder. How is it that you're installing those tests? It should all be automatic.

[Dark_Star]

NO I did manual install as said.. :| Also just 1 question.. Will the version 1 comes with GUI ? I hope with better installer..want.rpm packages too !

[uncle_fungus]

Did you actually try and use the proper test installation method that I mentioned a few posts back? It is almost impossible to do it wrong.

[deanjo]

NO I did manual install as said.. :| Also just 1 question.. Will the version 1 comes with GUI ? I hope with better installer..want.rpm packages too !

RPM packages? I thought you were using Ubuntu.

[Dark_Star]

Did you actually try and use the proper test installation method that I mentioned a few posts back? It is almost impossible to do it wrong.

Yep the same method no mistakes.. I was using Ubuntu but currently testing Mandriva. :p So though if this suite works for me then it would be gr8 if put some bechies on the review :)

[lordmozilla]

the benchmark is super-pi not super-p1. that could be your mistake.

[Vadi]

I'm just waiting on a gui myself, to avoid all of this confusion. However, the .deb they have is dead easy to install, not sure why did you go the manual way.

[lordmozilla]

maybe he did not have an apt based distro. An the manual install is really easy :

tar xzvf pts0.xx.tar.gz
cd phoronix-test-suite
./install.sh

that's all it is. Not exactly difficult.

[Dark_Star]

I'm just waiting on a gui myself, to avoid all of this confusion. However, the .deb they have is dead easy to install, not sure why did you go the manual way.

I did the same no problem in install but the problem is in using .. btw check my Mandrva Spring Edition review

http://www.techenclave.com/reviews-and-previews/mandriva-2008-1-review-breath-fresh-111577.html

[uncle_fungus]

What are you doing to try and run the tests?

If you used the installer, you just type:

phoronix-test-suite run <test-name>

[Vadi]

I'm quite content with the OS I'm using, thanks...