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Originally posted by dl.zerocool
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Was having "Live" in the title not clear enough?
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Apparently not
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Well, seriously now. Isn't it possible to size it down to a CD instead of a DVD? Also the memory requirements looks huge to me... What's the reason behind such enormous requirements?Comment
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Most computers that were built within the past 36 months or so have DVD drives... What's the reason for wanting it on a CD? The size will only get bigger with more tests.Originally posted by VinzC View Post
Running demanding tests in RAM sort of consumes a lot of memory.Originally posted by VinzC View PostMichael Larabel
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Damn Small Linux is 50 MB, which might also sound ridiculous.Originally posted by Michael View Post
Why? Well, for the challenge first. Having a DVD drive most of the time doesn't mean it's the only one to target. Some even have no removable drives (by choice I suppose). Having to burn a DVD for only 1 Gig doesn't make me want to go for it. Or make it 4 Gigs and I'll be happy!
Unless this is for testing monster machines that already are unaffordable to most people -- you know, like ?who's got the biggest...?
I don't know... Since PTS has testing profiles, why not categorize? Like profiles for CPU/memory/disk benchmarking only, video, 3D/2D, whatever. Amongst these profile sets, there must be which don't necessarily require that lot of resources, right? Also is Gnome absolutely unavoidable? Or is a lighter desktop also possible? Like XFCE, LXDE... I think there should be many ways to fine-tune the size and requirements of a PTS distribution.Comment
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I can see this being very useful to me, though not as a benchmark but more of a thorough system/burn-in test.
I'm pulling it down now, thanks for doing this.Comment
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Ubuntu is not the fastest, at least in a short test, will test more later maybe. Here stock speed tests without EIST:
http://global.phoronix-test-suite.co...23-26178-18490
Live images booted with toram option (via network, but that does not matter).Comment
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@bridgman
Btw. Kanotix64 iso images had PTS on it much longer, you just did never test it it seems
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Start a Torrent? Making a Live USB???
I've been having trouble downloading PTS Desktop Live from softpedia -- stupid flaky WiFi! -- so I thought I might get it via a torrent. I googled 'torrent PTS Desktop' but came up empty... I wonder if anyone has seeded one yet? If not, and assuming Phoronix has no objections, and further assuming that I manage to download a clean copy, would it make sense for me to start a torrent of it?
My plan is to install PTS Desktop Live on a SD card and run it off that. I've never created a Live USB stick before, but I assume it can be done using "Create a USB Startup Disk" (on Ubuntu Intrepid)?
Thanks!Comment
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Softpedia is slow as hell, had the same experience. It was usually not your wifi connection, dl speed got down to 200k (max 400k). In that time i created a new Kanotix64 iso with PTS 2.0 on my server and downloaded it with 2.5 mb/s and got my iso faster As the live image is similar to normal U all tools should work which used to work. Like unetbootin or that tool you mentioned or you are free to write your own one - that's that i did. I do not really like that way, because i prefer hybrid iso images, but as U prefers gfxboot patched syslinux/isolinux that will not happen so soon. For benchmarking i usually boot those images via network connection and with toram option. As U kernels have got a very stupid hack included that disables HPA by default i additionally need
libata.ignore_hpa=0
It would be nice when this option is added by default because it sucks when you boot U on a raid system and then all disks fail on reboot (full poweroff needed).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380138Comment
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