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# Phoronix Test Suite 10.8.5
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The **Phoronix Test Suite** is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking
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platform available for Linux, Solaris, macOS, Windows, and BSD operating
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systems. The Phoronix Test Suite allows for carrying out tests in a fully
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automated manner from test installation to execution and reporting. All tests
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are meant to be easily reproducible, easy-to-use, and support fully automated
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execution. The Phoronix Test Suite is open-source under the GNU GPLv3 license
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and is developed by Phoronix Media in cooperation with partners.
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[Phoronix Test Suite
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Documentation](https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/blob/master/documentation/phoronix-test-suite.md)
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The Phoronix Test Suite itself is an open-source framework for conducting
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automated tests along with reporting of test results, detection of installed
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system software/hardware, and other features. This framework is designed to be
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an extensible architecture so that new test profiles and suites can be easily
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added to represent performance benchmarks, unit tests, and other quantitative
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and qualitative (e.g. image quality comparison and pass/fail) measurements.
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Available through OpenBenchmarking.org, a collaborative storage platform
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developed in conjunction with the Phoronix Test Suite, are more than 600
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individual test profiles and more than 200 test suites available by default from
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the Phoronix Test Suite. Independent users are also able to upload their test
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results, profiles, and suites to OpenBenchmarking.org.
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A test profile is a single test that can be executed by the Phoronix Test Suite
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-- with a series of options possible within every test -- and a test suite is a
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seamless collection of test profiles and/or additional test suites. A test
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profile consists of a set of Bash/shell scripts and XML files while a test suite
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is a single XML file. Modules for the Phoronix Test Suite also allow for
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integration with git-bisect and other revision control systems for per-commit
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regression testing, system sensor monitoring, and other extras.
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[OpenBenchmarking.org](https://www.openbenchmarking.org/) also allows for
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conducting side-by-side result comparisons, a central location for storing and
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sharing test results, and collaborating over test data.
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[Phoromatic](https://www.phoromatic.com/) is a complementary platform to
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OpenBenchmarking.org and the Phoronix Test Suite for interfacing with Phoronix
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Test Suite client(s) to automatically execute test runs on a timed, per-commit,
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or other trigger-driven basis. Phoromatic is designed for enterprise and allows
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for the easy management of multiple networked systems running Phoronix Test
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Suite clients via a single web-based interface.
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Professional support and custom engineering for the Phoronix Test Suite,
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Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org is available by contacting
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<https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/>.
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Full details on the Phoronix Test Suite setup and usage is available from the
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included HTML/PDF documentation within the phoronix-test-suite package and from
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the [Phoronix Test Suite documentation directory](documentation/).
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## Installation & Setup
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The Phoronix Test Suite is supported on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, macOS, and Windows
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systems. However, the most full-featured and well supported operating system for
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conducting the tests is Linux with some non-basic functionality not being
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available under all platforms. The Phoronix Test Suite software/framework is
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compatible with all major CPU architectures (e.g. i686, x86_64, ARM / AArch64,
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RISC-V, POWER 64-bit), but not all of the test profiles/suites are compatible
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with all architectures.
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The Phoronix Test Suite can be installed for system-wide usage or run locally
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without installation from the extracted tar.gz/zip package. The only hard
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dependency on the Phoronix Test Suite is having command-line support for PHP
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(PHP 5.3+) installed. A complete PHP stack (e.g. with web server) is **not**
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needed, but merely the PHP command-line support, which is widely available from
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operating system package managers under the name `php`, `php7-cli`, `php5-cli`,
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`php7` or `php8`.
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## Usage
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The process to download, install/setup, execute, and report the results of a
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benchmark can be as simple as a command such as `phoronix-test-suite benchmark
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smallpt` to run a simple CPU test profile. If wishing to simply install a test,
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it's a matter of running `phoronix-test-suite install <test or suite name>` and
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to run it's `phoronix-test-suite run <test or suite name>`. There's also a batch
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mode for non-interactive benchmarking by first running `phoronix-test-suite
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batch-setup` and then using the `batch-run` sub-command rather than `run`. For
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more guidance see the [Phoronix Test Suite
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documentation](documentation/phoronix-test-suite.md).
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Viewing installed system hardware and software is available via
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`phoronix-test-suite system-info`.
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Facilitating a result comparison from OpenBenchmarking.org can be done by
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running, for example, `phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1204293-BY-PHORONIX357` if
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wishing to compare the results of the
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`https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1204293-BY-PHORONIX357` result file.
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