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[mtippett]

Hey all,

Michael and I are experimenting with ways to engage with the PTS community in addition to the forums, we have created a test PTS...

[mtippett]

*chuckle* X hasn't changed much in the last 4 years since I moved out of AMD.

Federated configuration (X.org) helps, but then you have...

[mtippett]

Hi mitcoes,

Although these results may not be the ones that Michael used, they look to be related. If you look at any result page on OpenBenchmarking,...

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Bah, on the GPU side AMD has hit the 2 Billion transitor mark in 2009. Last years model was 2.6, and this years model will probably be more . And...

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As implied by shrey, a lot of applications are naive about the way they deal with multiple displays (in any configuration). For example, flash only understands...

[mtippett]

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...LI-AMDRADEON19

Keep your fiver....

[mtippett]

This is a regression in system behavior that is caused by a change committed to the kernel. The buggy BIOS existed previously, but the bug was exposed...

[mtippett]

It's not a Just.

There are at least two angles worth examining here..

o Many versions - The drivers interact with a number...

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It all depends on what you are comparing - or the variant part of the configuration under test. For these tests, Michael is comparing hardware against...

[mtippett]

Ah.. So you are the owner of that system .

I intend to do a openbenchmarking.org blog posting of that one.. Can you email me matthew...

[mtippett]

Those steps are not part of the framework itself. My involvement is primarily Phoronix Test Suite & OpenBenchmarking, not Phoronix.com. I believe...

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My view at this stage, is that the application of aging or similar approaches to position the system under test (SUT) to be in a particular form is something...

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Has this been previously done? The impressions tool presentation talks only about making a filesystem look similar to an old one. It didn't actually...

[mtippett]

Note that as per Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt in the kernel

	discard		Controls whether ext4 should issue discard/TRIM

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[mtippett]

With PTS3/OpenBenchmarking, it's trivial to do.

Configure your system to match the system configuration under test highlighted in the...