Hi
Today at work I wanted to benchmark a new Sun SPARC server we received and PTS came to mind as something for me to try. The server is equipped with two 1.4 GHz T2+ 8 core processors, with a total of 128 vCPUs/threads and 64 GB RAM. The server is running OpenSolaris 2009.06.
Due to the excessive amount of CPU threads available, I wanted to run the "multicore" test suite on the server, but to my big disappointment some of the tests doesn't seem to be multi threaded, and therefore runs quite slowly along at 1.4 GHz.
I was wondering if I could be of some assistance with optimizing the tests in any way for running on SPARC servers, since I haven't been able to find any mention of SPARC based systems on global.phoronix-test-suite.com or here in the forums. I doubt that many people have access to SPARC based systems due to their price, and the fact that they are best used with certain workloads.
As a first step, I am going to try the 2.2 alpha 2 release instead, to see if it has any improvements over the 2.0 version, but let me know if there is any thing you would like tested, since I can't really provide shell access to the server :P
/Tenzer
Today at work I wanted to benchmark a new Sun SPARC server we received and PTS came to mind as something for me to try. The server is equipped with two 1.4 GHz T2+ 8 core processors, with a total of 128 vCPUs/threads and 64 GB RAM. The server is running OpenSolaris 2009.06.
Due to the excessive amount of CPU threads available, I wanted to run the "multicore" test suite on the server, but to my big disappointment some of the tests doesn't seem to be multi threaded, and therefore runs quite slowly along at 1.4 GHz.
I was wondering if I could be of some assistance with optimizing the tests in any way for running on SPARC servers, since I haven't been able to find any mention of SPARC based systems on global.phoronix-test-suite.com or here in the forums. I doubt that many people have access to SPARC based systems due to their price, and the fact that they are best used with certain workloads.
As a first step, I am going to try the 2.2 alpha 2 release instead, to see if it has any improvements over the 2.0 version, but let me know if there is any thing you would like tested, since I can't really provide shell access to the server :P
/Tenzer
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