Support #904
Updated by Daniel Curtis almost 7 years ago
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. h2. Prepare the Environment * Make sure they system is up to date: <pre> pacman -Syu </pre> h2. Install Phoronix Test Suite * Install PTS: <pre> pacman -S phoronix-test-suite </pre> * Install a few php extensions: pacman -S php-{gd, sqlite} * Edit the php.ini file: <pre> nano /etc/php/php.ini </pre> #* And uncomment the following extensions socket extension to enable them: it: <pre> extension=bz2.so extension=gd.so extension=sockets.so extension=sqlite3.so </pre> * List the available suites: <pre> phoronix-test-suite list-available-suites </pre> * List the available tests: <pre> phoronix-test-suite list-available-tests </pre> * Run the pts/sample-pass-fail benchmark test: <pre> phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/sample-pass-fail </pre> * Run the pts/interbench benchmark test: <pre> phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/interbench </pre> * Start the web server: <pre> phoronix-test-suite start-ws-server </pre> #* Navigate to http://localhost * Check the php config for any problems: <pre> phoronix-test-suite php-conf </pre> * Run phoronix from the command line interactively: <pre> phoronix-test-suite interactive </pre> h2. Resources * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/benchmarking#Phoronix_Test_Suite * https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/documentation/phoronix-test-suite.html * 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/