On 12/22/11 17:56, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Guys, girls, fuzzy creatures, > > This is by far the best example of a constructive email in this entire thread.
Agreed! > > If people would like to help, Erik here is exactly the kind of person > with exactly the kind of software that needs a hand. > > 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. > > 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. :) :-) > > 2c, > > > Adrian > > > On 22 December 2011 03:21, Erik Cederstrand <e...@cederstrand.dk> 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 offer help >> if someone wants to pick up the project. >> >> For those who haven't heard about it, it's a system designed specifically to >> track performance of FreeBSD over time by comparing revisions of FreeBSD, >> everything else being equal. It consists of a tinderbox-like build script >> for a build server, a script to install FreeBSD and run benchmarks 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: convert >> 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 benchmarks, 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/tracker.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-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________
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