[Freedombox-discuss] Raspberry PI performance measurements

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Rob van der Hoeven (2013-02-11 12:17:44)
> On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 17:22 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Would be nice if you could avoid promoting the misconception of 
> > Raspbian being a version of Debian - it is no more so than Ubuntu 
> > is.  Better to instead say "This is a Debian derivative that has 
> > been optimized...".
> > 
> 
> Fixed.

Thanks.


> > Would be quite interesting if your test could be codified as two 
> > scripts: one script to install and configure the Debian (or 
> > Raspbian) packages you are testing against, and one script to run at 
> > an external host to do the actual measurements.
> > 
> > That way others could repeat identical tests for other hardware, 
> > e.g...
> > 
> >  * Bdale could test that cool-but-not-generally-available-yet board 
> >    he showed at FOSDEM.
> >  * Héctor could test Olimex iMX233 board available for some time.
> >  * I could test Olicom A13 boards available at similar price as RPi.
> 
> The experimental version of my blog that I'm using in the tests is the 
> result of a hacking session and will never make it into a package. I 
> use it because it is very easy to setup, and because it does some 
> "real work" (many performance tests just send "Hello world" to the 
> client which makes the test results useless). The test setup involves 
> installing python-flask, gunicorn and a copy-paste of the project 
> directory. If anyone with a FreedomBox wants to perform the same tests 
> I am willing to gzip the project directory and provide instructions.

I am aware that your system is "hand-coded" and didn't mean to point 
fingers at that - it has its benefits, and I do appreciate your 
exploring alternative paths.

I am not quite there yet, but when boxer becomes in a usable state I 
might want such tarball+howto to try do such automated rollout of it.

Feel free to nudge me about it - sometimes that is all it needs for me 
to pour more energy in that boxer project.


 - Jonas

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