Guys, girls, fuzzy creatures, This is by far the best example of a constructive email in this entire thread.
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. :) 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
