My 1st PTS test!! Please help me a little!

[latebeat]

Hi guys,
this is the first time I'm running pts so I have a simple question that I wasn't able to find the answer to yet.
I want to test my new ssd under different partitions/filesystems that I have created.
How do I run a particular test just for a specific device?
Is it a matter of adding the device after the pts command? I.e.

phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/fs-mark /dev/sda1

I tried running phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/fs-mark with no options specified and it never asked me which one I wanted benchmarked. Also when I tried phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/fs-mark /dev/sda1 nowhere did it confirm that indeed the test was run on /dev/sda1 and not on the system partition for example

thank you for the help and keep up the amazing work that you do here!!

anestis

[Michael]

Right now the best way to change the location to test on your disk is by modifying ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml and changing the installed test location from ~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/ to whatever location you desire. That way it will universally change for all tests.

[latebeat]

Right now the best way to change the location to test on your disk is by modifying ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml and changing the installed test location from ~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/ to whatever location you desire. That way it will universally change for all tests.

My first pts question and I get a reply from Mr. phoronix himself! I feel honored! hehe! I first read about you when you did the interview for the ubuntistas

So.. I checked the user-config.xml file

and I'm not quite sure which value to change?

I'm seeing:

    <Installation>
      <RemoveDownloadFiles>FALSE</RemoveDownloadFiles>
      <SearchMediaForCache>TRUE</SearchMediaForCache>
      <SymLinkFilesFromCache>FALSE</SymLinkFilesFromCache>
      <PromptForDownloadMirror>FALSE</PromptForDownloadMirror>
      <EnvironmentDirectory>~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/</EnvironmentDirectory>
      <CacheDirectory>~/.phoronix-test-suite/download-cache/</CacheDirectory>
    </Installation>

is it the environment directory that I should change ?
If that is it, do I just change that to another partition and then it picks it up right away if I re-run the fs-mark test


thank you,

anestis

[Michael]

My first pts question and I get a reply from Mr. phoronix himself! I feel honored! hehe! I first read about you when you did the interview for the ubuntistas

So.. I checked the user-config.xml file

and I'm not quite sure which value to change?

I'm seeing:

    <Installation>
      <RemoveDownloadFiles>FALSE</RemoveDownloadFiles>
      <SearchMediaForCache>TRUE</SearchMediaForCache>
      <SymLinkFilesFromCache>FALSE</SymLinkFilesFromCache>
      <PromptForDownloadMirror>FALSE</PromptForDownloadMirror>
      <EnvironmentDirectory>~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/</EnvironmentDirectory>
      <CacheDirectory>~/.phoronix-test-suite/download-cache/</CacheDirectory>
    </Installation>

is it the environment directory that I should change ?
If that is it, do I just change that to another partition and then it picks it up right away if I re-run the fs-mark test


thank you,

anestis

Right, it's the EnvironmentDirectory tag that you can change to point to any location. If you don't want to redownload things, first run phoronix-test-suite make-download-cache before changing the location.