Preview Of The Massive New Open-Source, Linux Test Farm

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Preview Of The Massive New Open-Source, Linux Test Farm

They say a picture is worth one thousand words, but how many Linux systems is a picture worth?..

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg1NDg

[gens]

Phoronix: Preview Of The Massive New Open-Source, Linux Test Farm

They say a picture is worth one thousand words, but how many Linux systems is a picture worth?..

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg1NDg

well you don't have to pay for heating anymore

[Michael]

well you don't have to pay for heating anymore

It's not THAT much warmer as Phoromatic takes care of turning off / WoL'ing systems to power up when there is tests needing to be done but when idling will power off completely. Plus lots of latest efficient hardware.

[Sonadow]

26 modern Linux systems at the moment running upstream Linux tests daily... (Not counting the daily Phoronix test systems for article/review testing.) By the end of the weekend, 28~30 systems dedicated to this mission... Open-source, Linux benchmarks every single day with full automation and reproducibility looking for upstream regressions and tracking the overall performance with real-world workloads. Antergos/Arch Linux, Linux mainline Git, LLVM/Clang daily, Fedora Rawhide Nodebug, Linux + Mesa Git, daily Ubuntu Vivid packages, daily Debian unstable, and openSUSE Tumbleweed...

Add Mageia Cauldron to the list if possible?

[Michael]

Add Mageia Cauldron to the list if possible?

Is there anything unique/interesting from Mageia these days? Anything different about their kernel/compiler/etc compared to Arch/Ubuntu/Debian/openSUSE/Fedora?

[kaprikawn]

Ooooh....pretty.

Really looking forward to seeing the output from this, especially excited to see more Arch benchmarks.

[cthart]

Massive?

I expected to see rows and rows of rack mounted computers, instead I see just a bunch of PCs in a corner.

[eydee]

I expected to see rows and rows of rack mounted computers, instead I see just a bunch of PCs in a corner.

People with Adblock Plus are the reason, Michael is on a budget!

[przemoli]

I expected to see rows and rows of rack mounted computers, instead I see just a bunch of PCs in a corner.

Racks are for servers.

Linux on servers is probably overtested by big corps anyway

[CrystalGamma]

It's simple math

They say a picture is worth one thousand words, but how many Linux systems is a picture worth?

Easy:

running

find * -print0 | wc --words --files0-from=-

on the mainline kernel source tree (commit g56c67ce) gives a result of 62294310 words total.
Therefore, a picture is worth 1000/62294310=0.000016053 Linux systems.
And that doesn't even include other programs running on those systems.