Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive benchmarking and testing platform available for Linux and is designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner. This software is based upon the internal tools and extensive Linux benchmarking work done by Phoronix since 2004, with input from tier-one computer hardware vendors. This software is open-source and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 and consists of a lightweight core (pts-core) with each benchmark consisting of an XML-based profile with related utility scripts. The process from the benchmark installation, to the actual benchmarking, to the parsing of important hardware and software components is heavily automated and completely repeatable, asking users only for confirmation of actions.
The Phoronix Test Suite can be used for simply comparing your computer's performance with your friends and co-workers or can also be used at your company for internal quality assurance purposes under Linux. Results from the Phoronix Test Suite are displayed in a results viewer with optional support for uploading them to PTS Global. PTS Global allows you to browse all uploaded results, search these results (coming soon), and comparing other results against your own system.
Requirements:
The only dependencies for the Phoronix Test Suite on Linux systems are PHP5 CLI (packages for it are usually called php5-cli or php-cli or just php) and the PHP GD module. Note that only PHP5 is needed and not a web server or other packages commonly associated with PHP.
Here are some key features of "Phoronix Test Suite":
· 70+ Test Profiles
· 30+ Test Suites
· Extensible (XML-based) Testing Architecture
· Automated Test Installation
· Dependency Management Support
· Module-based Plug-In Architecture
· Integrated Results Viewer
· PNG & SVG Graph Rendering Support
· Autonomous Batch Mode Supported
· Global Database For Result Uploads, Benchmark Comparisons
· HTML Documentation Covering Test Profiles, Module Framework
· Installed Software, Hardware Detection
· System Monitoring Support
· Runs On Linux, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X, & FreeBSD Operating Systems
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· pts-core: Various code path optimizations and cleaning
· pts-core: Add dump-system-sensors option to display a readout of all supported Phodevi sensors and their values and print unsupported sensors
· pts-core: Fix TEST_RESULTS_NAME environmental variable not working
· pts-core: Fix network-setup network testing check actually use the proxy, hook in the HTTP proxy override properly
· pts-core: Clean-up download cache directories code
· pts-core: Add "installed-tests" virtual suite of tests that are currently installed
· pts-core: On GTK2 GUI Don't show buttons/header for reference system comparisons for results when there are actually no results to compare
· pts-core: Small OpenSolaris 2010.02 support updates
· pts-core: Various small bug fixes
· phodevi: Support for the GPU fan-speed sensor with ATI graphics driver
· phodevi: Add support for reading the stock GPU engine/memory clock when using the open-source Radeon driver
· phodevi: Fixed detection of the xf86-video-radeonhd display driver
· phodevi: Fix throwing SUSE Linux 11.2 into an infinite loop when running "X -version" on this OS, "Xorg -version" works fine instead
· pts: Update darwin test suite
· pts: Support using zypper to install external dependencies on SuSE/OpenSuSE since it can ignore missing / removed packages without failing
· documentation: Update documentation for Phoronix Test Suite 2.2
