From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 17:41:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0BF106566C for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 17:41:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (out-0-31.mx.aerioconnect.net [216.240.47.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BB58FC0C for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 17:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from idiom.com (postfix@mx0.idiom.com [216.240.32.160]) by out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA5HfMfB010695; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:41:24 -0700 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (h-67-100-89-137.snfccasy.static.covad.net [67.100.89.137]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338D92D6011; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:41:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CD441C4.6090209@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:41:24 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Cederstrand References: <291C14E3-1BEF-4C1E-8BCD-BF8FB3BCE6EB@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <291C14E3-1BEF-4C1E-8BCD-BF8FB3BCE6EB@cederstrand.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 216.240.47.51 Cc: sbruno@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, grarpamp Subject: Re: Tracking performance areas over time X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:41:29 -0000 On 11/5/10 5:26 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Den 04/11/2010 kl. 18.07 skrev grarpamp: > >> Not as comparison with FreeBSD but ideas for >> tracking FreeBSD performance across release/releng. >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2612_2637&num=1 >> >> Provided the version of the unit test is kept the >> same and it compiles across all FreeBSD release/releng >> since 2.x, automating like this shouldn't be hard. >> >> Natively release install [or selfhost build releng >> on top], and archive the base platforms once. Copy >> over to a test disk and reboot it natively on >> demand, insert each unit test module as desired, >> record data, copy disk and boot next version, etc... > I actually developed something like this for FreeBSD two years ago. Included were build scripts for producing releases, a description of setting up netbooting slaves, a small collection of benchmarks, a database and a web interface. In lack of hardware and time on my part to run the tests, it never got off the ground. Apart from an update to run on SVN instead of CVS, it should be functional. > > If anyone's interested, please contact me. Sean Bruno said at the meeting yesterday that if we needed a machine in the cluster for a dedicated job, let him know, and there were even unused machines available at the moment.. please talk to him (CC'd) about getting access to one of those (quite nice) machines so we can have this running pretty permanently.. julian > Thanks, > Erik