The Phoronix Kernel Test Farm Is Alive

The Phoronix Kernel Test Farm Is Alive
Published on December 01, 2009
Written by Michael Larabel
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This year with the Phoronix Test Suite we have delivered four major
updates to this leading, widely adopted, multi-platform testing software
that has brought dozens of new test profiles and literally hundreds of
significant changes. These changes ranged from features to autonomously
track performance regressions within any code-base, the ability to not
only compare frame-rates within OpenGL tests but image quality
comparisons too, support for mobile platforms, and so much other major
work to further drive automated testing and benchmarking not only on
Linux but OpenSolaris, *BSD, and Mac OS X too. In 2009 we also launched
PTS Desktop Live, our own operating system for carrying out standardized
benchmarks in an easy-to-use and repeatable manner from a live Linux
environment, and also Phoromatic, which is designed for the enterprise
world and allows the Phoronix Test Suite to be easily deployed across
many systems and then managed from a central interface. The year is not
over yet, nor is our work on ensuring that the Phoronix Test Suite is
the most powerful and robust testing/benchmarking platform. With that
said, as of this morning our Phoronix kernel test farm is now alive!

Skipping down...
These results will then be publicly available from this new Phoromatic
extension that will be launching later this month or early next month
(or earlier, if Phoromatic spots some notable regressions during the
2.6.33 merge window that are worth pointing out sooner). This Phoromatic
extension will allow users to view all of the test results over a
specified period, view system logs from a given day, etc. There is also
some other exciting features to be announced. We believe this can and
will become a vital resource to kernel developers and other areas as we
branch out our performance analytic services. There are already Fortune
500 companies using Phoromatic, but many plans are still ahead. By the
end of this month, there will hopefully be at least two more systems
online that will be upgrading against Fedora Rawhide and Ubuntu Lucid
every morning and carrying out performance tests in a similar manner to
our Linux kernel benchmarking. Again, this testing farm is requiring
zero user intervention and it is fully automated through the Phoronix
Test Suite stack.

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