most benchmarks do not work at all

[Andreas Glaeser]

Binary package hint: phoronix-test-suite

Using ubuntu 10.04 lts on a g4 mac, I tried to run several tests from phoronix-test-suite , but found that most of those benchmarks do not work at all.
In fact only compilebench and byte produced any results, the other ones I tried all failed.
Can it be due to my decision, not to submit the test-result-statistics anonymously to their global webpage ?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: phoronix-test-suite 2.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-32.62-powerpc 2.6.32.38+drm33.16
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-32-powerpc ppc
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Tue May 31 13:48:53 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release powerpc (20100428)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: phoronix-test-suite

[michaellarabel (michael-michaellarabel)]

Hi,

No, it's not at all to do with statistics repoting. It's due to not many of the upstream packages being able to build under PowerPC. Many of the tests built from source should work, but in the case of using some of the game binaries, etc x86/86_64 is the primary target of the benchmarking support. There's also better support for ARM than PPC; I don't have any PPC hardware around at all for testing/development work.

Though if you upgrade to PTS 3.0, you should be able to have a bit better PPC support and some of the tests should run. PTS 2.4 is quite old now.

-- Michael

[Andreas Glaeser (aglaeser1)]

Upon trying to run those benchmarks, there was a process called 'backend' which loaded the cpu to about 90%. Upon reboot that was gone.
By the Way: The package 'chromium-browser' is missing, but 'chromium-browser-inspector' exists, but it is impossible to report that.
Is it OK to use chromium-browser while not wanting to use google-web-search anyway?

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago