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Installing phoronix-test-suite
The Phoronix test suite package installs only the binaries. The tests themselves are fetched from the website at benchmarking time (although they can be prefetched). In this step, we only install the program:
sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite
Getting some daemons out of the way
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware stop
sudo /etc/init.d/zabbix stop
sudo /etc/init.d/landscape-client stop
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
Entering batchmode settings
sudo phoronix-test-suite batch-setup
Running the tests
sudo phoronix-test-suite batch-benchmark linux-system
Comparing the results
The results are stored in directories in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/test-results (somtimes in ~root when using sudo.
Fetch them from there and copy them to a single machine.
If you put them back in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/test-results on that machine, you can now do something like:
user@host:~$ phoronix-test-suite list-results
====================================
Phoronix Test Suite - Saved Results
====================================
2010-05-03-1039
Saved Name: Test: linux-system
- linux-system-001
linux-system-cit-zb-3-53
Saved Name: Test: linux-system
- linux-system-cit-zb-3-53
linux-system-cit-zb-39-116
Saved Name: Test: linux-system
- linux-system-cit-zb-39-116
2010-05-03-1039
Saved Name: Test: linux-system
- linux-system-001
- linux-system-cit-zb-3-53
- linux-system-cit-zb-39-116
2010-05-03-1039
Saved Name: Test: linux-system
- linux-system-001
- linux-system-cit-zb-3-53
user@host:~$ phoronix-test-suite merge-results 2010-05-03-1039 linux-system-cit-zb-3-53 linux-system-cit-zb-39-116
You can now browse ~/.phoronix-test-suite/results with a web browser to se nice tables and graphs.g
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