Daily Linux Kernel Benchmarks For A Year

“Last year we introduced Phoromatic as an extension to the
Phoronix Test Suite for making it easy to build a benchmarking test
farm or simply benchmarking systems across the world all from a
simple and easy-to-use web-interface where all of the test results
are also stored. A few months after launching Phoromatic,
Phoromatic Tracker launched as an extension to that for being able
to monitor the performance of a given software component on a timed
basis or even on a per-commit VCS basis (or when externally
triggered otherwise). As an example of that, we launched our Linux
kernel test farm, which has now been running for a year.

“It was last December that we introduced the Phoromatic Tracker
for the Linux kernel where we were benchmarking the very latest
snapshots of the upstream Linux kernel on a daily basis. It was
also earlier this year that we launched a Phoromatic Tracker for
the latest Ubuntu packages.

“During the past year we have spotted a few regressions in the
Linux kernel with the dozens of tests (circa 60) that run each day
across multiple systems and made a number of improvements to the
testing stack.”

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