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I recently wanted to benchmark one of my machines that had Windows on it, so rather than installing Arch onto a new hard drive, I installed Antergos onto a USB drive with XFCE and Phoronix Test Suite. This seemed like a more up to date alternative to the Phoronix Test Suite Desktop Live distro that seems to be dead in the water.

This is a simple guide for installing and using Phoronix on Arch Linux.

Prepare the Environment¶

• Make sure they system is up to date:
  

  pacman -Syu
  

Install Phoronix Test Suite¶

• Install PTS:
  

  pacman -S phoronix-test-suite
  

• Install a few php extensions and test dependencies:
  

  pacman -S php-{gd, sqlite} sdl sdl_net sdl_gfx sdl_image sdl_ttf yasm boost numactl gcc-fortran openmpi
  

• Edit the php.ini file:
  

  nano /etc/php/php.ini
  

  • And uncomment the following extensions to enable them:
    

    extension=bz2.so
    extension=gd.so
    extension=sockets.so
    extension=sqlite3.so
    

• List the available suites:
  

  phoronix-test-suite list-available-suites
  

• List the available tests:
  

  phoronix-test-suite list-available-tests
  

• Run the pts/cpu suite:
  

  phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/cpu
  

• Start the GUI:
  

  phoronix-test-suite gui
  

• Check the php config for any problems:
  

  phoronix-test-suite php-conf
  

• Run phoronix from the command line interactively:
  

  phoronix-test-suite interactive
  

Resources¶

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/benchmarking#Phoronix_Test_Suite
• https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/documentation/phoronix-test-suite.html
• https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PhoronixTestSuite
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2015/10/performance-testing-with-phoronix
• http://dustymabe.com/2012/12/30/running-benchmarks-with-the-phoronix-test-suite/