Installer errors & disk benchmarking

[toddbailey]

I tried this and PTY still accesses the / drive (sda1)
btw: DO I want to run as a local user or su?


I tried deleting .Phoronix-test-suite and rerunning.

In doing so I am presented with the following

Test Target:

1: Default Test Directory
2: /media/500gb [/dev/sdb1]
3: /media/areca2 [/dev/sdb2]
4: /media/areca3 [/dev/sdc1]
5: Test All Options

Except I want to test the compaq arrays, listed below

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 1452.4 GB, 1452437144064 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 176582 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e796f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 1 176582 1418394883+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1: 109.2 GB, 109252608000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13282 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8ecde359

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 * 1 13282 106687633+ 42 SFS

[Michael]

Change:

<EnvironmentDirectory>
~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/
</EnvironmentDirectory>

To:

<EnvironmentDirectory>
/media/compaqarray1/
</EnvironmentDirectory>

[toddbailey]

In what regard? You can only point it to one mounted directory at a time.

OK, 1 drive /partition at a time

you mention editing the EnvironmentDirectory section in user-config.xml

the section I found looks like this so I don't understand what change I would need to make to the file to access the desired partition.

and do I want the device name ie: /dev/sdc1 or the mounted folder, in my case /media/compaqarray1

<Installation>
<RemoveDownloadFiles>FALSE</RemoveDownloadFiles>
<SearchMediaForCache>TRUE</SearchMediaForCache>
<SymLinkFilesFromCache>FALSE</SymLinkFilesFromCache>
<PromptForDownloadMirror>FALSE</PromptForDownloadMirror>
<EnvironmentDirectory>
~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/
</EnvironmentDirectory>
<CacheDirectory>
~/.phoronix-test-suite/download-cache/
</CacheDirectory>
</Installation>

[Michael]

In what regard? You can only point it to one mounted directory at a time.

[toddbailey]

The easiest way -- so that it applies to all tests -- is to modify the EnvironmentDirectory location in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml to point to the different drive you wish to test each time.

can you provide an example of how this might look say for 2 devices?

[Michael]

The easiest way -- so that it applies to all tests -- is to modify the EnvironmentDirectory location in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml to point to the different drive you wish to test each time.

[alazyworkaholic]

Huh, I reinstalled ubuntu, with the netbook packages this time, & the test suite is installing as it should.

Now I have /dev/sda1,5,6,7,8,9 for ext4,3,2,reiserfs,jfs,xfs respectively & want to run the disk test suite on each of these partitions & then compare the results.

I have some trouble following the online docs. It guess I should type:
phoronix-test-suite run disk /dev/sda1 (then 5,6,... once it finishes the first)
Any guidance is much appreciated.

[alazyworkaholic]

phoronix-test-suite install disk

Thanks for the help Michael,
I wanted to install a suite of tests to find which disk partition gave the best performance so I typed (with sudo too, but that didn't help)

phoronix-test-suite install disk

which had pts download sqlite & try to install, fail, then try to install the next test, & so on until I killed it.

[Michael]

What test specifically were you installing when it got the error?

[alazyworkaholic]

I want to find the best filesystem for my Acer Aspire One's pathetically slow 16 GB ssd, so it might just become useable again. For example, firefox's database brings browsing to a halt. I made ext4, ext3, ext2, jfs, reiserfs, & xfs partitions, all with noatime. I want to benchmark each partition.

1st problem:
I tried to install a disk test suite with pts but I got "installer exited with a non-zero exit status"
The log file is very long & I'm unable to decipher it. Suffice to say there are lots of errors (table has no member named... expected ')' before '*' token... etc...)
I'm using ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 with just the base system install (no gnome/kde/...). I installed pts from the repository along with its dependencies.
What went wrong?