Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution 31
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from the medium-infrastructure dept.
Bitnit writes "Phoronix has released a major update to their automated Linux benchmarking software, the Phoronix Test Suite, and more interestingly they have released their own distribution that's designed for hardware testing and benchmarking on Linux. With PTS Desktop Live they provide this Linux distribution that's to run only from a live environment off a DVD / USB key and then allows their benchmarking software to run — and only that — on this standardized software stack, which makes hardware comparisons a lot easier."
Re:Speed - running off the CD (Score:5, Informative)
Once the test is loaded, it runs from memory, and CD speed will not (should not) affect the test results.
Re:Wrong benchmarks (Score:4, Informative)
So what's stopping you? :-) They give instructions on how to do this here [phoronix-test-suite.com]. The only thing it probably won't do well is bootup testing, but then you probably want something like Bootchart for that.
Re:VirtualBox (Score:2, Informative)