Preparing For Phoronix Test Suite 6.0-Hammerfest Next Week

Written by Michael Larabel in Phoronix Test Suite on 12 November 2015 at 08:04 PM EST. Add A Comment
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Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 "Hammerfest" is ready for release next week and as such being put out tonight is the final development build.

Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 Milestone 6 is now available from Phoronix-Test-Suite.com or Phoronix-Test-Suite on GitHub. If you're not already familiar with the many changes of Phoronix Test Suite 6.0, see my earlier articles on the topic and/or wait for the official write-up next week.

Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 M6 is coming just one week after Milestone 5 but there's two prominent changes: a major rework of the system sensor monitoring support and another refresh to the Phoromatic Server UI.


A Polish university student who is using the Phoronix Test Suite for his thesis had done a major rework of Phodevi's system monitoring support. The primary goal of this rework is to allow for dynamic sensors in being able to query per-CPU-core resources rather than the static sensors before of just querying the entire CPU package. So there's now the ability to monitor per-core statistics on usage, frequency, etc. For other areas like hard drive reads/writes it is also now possible to see per-disk stats simultaneously. There's also many other improvements with more good features now able to be built atop this reworked code. For current users relying upon the MONITOR= environment variable, phoronix-test-suite system-sensors, etc, there should be no change in functionality.


The other big change of Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 M6 is my wife finishing up some styling improvements on the Phoromatic Server UI. The revised interface should now match better to the new PTS results viewer, the Phoronix-Test-Suite.com, the HTML documentation, and other updated assets.


Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 M6 also has a few Windows support updates, a few random fixes, and other enhancements. Assuming nothing major comes up, the plan is to officially release Phoronix Test Suite 6.0.0 next week Tuesday, 17 November. Benchmarks away!
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