SBC Benchmark Suite - Phoronix

sbc-general-benchmark.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Benchmark script for SBCs (Debian or Ubuntu).
#
# WARNING: This script is meant to be run as the root user.
# This script should never be run on a system/partition you
# care about. You should only run this on a system that you
# intend to use only for benchmarking and can reinstall or
# re-flash easily.
#
# It's a good idea to make sure your system is updated prior
# to running this script:
#
#   sudo apt-get update
#   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
#
# Usage:
#   sudo ./pi-general-benchmark.sh
#
# PTS is cloned from git master, since the last tagged release
# (10.8.4, from 2022) predates fixes for newer PHP releases. To
# pin a specific ref (tag, branch, or commit) instead:
#   sudo PTS_REF="v10.8.4" ./pi-general-benchmark.sh

# Fail on error.
set -e

# Allow the PTS git ref to be overridden.
PTS_REF="${PTS_REF:-master}"

# Set this to "~/.phoronix-test-suite" if not running as root.
PHORONIX_CONFIG_PATH="/var/lib/phoronix-test-suite"

# Verify script is running as root.
if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]
  then echo "Please run this script as root (e.g. with sudo)."
  exit
fi

# Change directories into home folder.
cd ~

# Install prerequisites.
source /etc/os-release
case $ID in
  debian|ubuntu|mint)
    apt-get install -y git php-cli php-xml
    ;;

  fedora|rhel|centos|rocky)
    dnf install -y git php-cli php-xml
    ;;

  *)
    echo -n "Unsupported Linux distribution."
    ;;
esac

# Download test suite (shallow clone of the requested ref).
rm -rf phoronix-test-suite
git clone --depth=1 --branch "${PTS_REF}" \
  https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite.git
cd phoronix-test-suite

# Accept terms and print system info.
./phoronix-test-suite system-info <<-END
y
n
n
END

# List recommended tests.
# ./phoronix-test-suite list-recommended-tests

# Batch setup
# Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/77707788/100134 for the assist.
printf 'y\nn\nn\nn\nn\nn\nn\n' | ./phoronix-test-suite batch-setup

# Install test suites.
./phoronix-test-suite install pts/encode-mp3
./phoronix-test-suite install pts/x264
./phoronix-test-suite install pts/phpbench
./phoronix-test-suite install pts/build-linux-kernel

# Run standard test suites.
./phoronix-test-suite batch-run pts/encode-mp3
./phoronix-test-suite batch-run pts/phpbench

# Run test suite requiring option selection.
echo 3 | ./phoronix-test-suite batch-run pts/x264
echo 1 | ./phoronix-test-suite batch-run pts/build-linux-kernel

I added pts/build-linux-kernel with just defconfig but that doesn't seem to be working out... it runs both that and all deps.

  <Execute>
    <Test>pts/build-linux-kernel</Test>
    <Arguments>defconfig</Arguments>
  </Execute>

I took out the build-linux-kernel test because it doesn't seem to accept the argument, it just runs all options which means it takes forever.

You can run it separately:

./phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/build-linux-kernel

Reworked the script to just run everything individually, instead of setting up a custom batch. This way it is completely automated. Well, should be, at least.

Fixed the script to make sure all the tests are installed prior to being run. Otherwise... it just errors out.

I got error when try to run these test on my pi-zero 2 running Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) aarch64
For some reason when i try to install the packages

sudo apt install -y php8.2-cli php8.2-xml

got errors:

E: Unable to locate package php8.2-cli
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php8.2-cli'
E: Unable to locate package php8.2-xml
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php8.2-xml'

Does this script do not work on debian 11

@deepak-coding-art - This script is meant for Debian 12 (or current version), but you can modify the PHP versions by changing 8.2 in them to I think 8.1 or 8.0 (whichever works on Debian 11).

Thanks it worked i just needed to add the deb.sury.org repository for php

Hello @geerlingguy thanks for the awesome script. All the other benchmarks seems to run fine on my Ubuntu 22.04.05 (64 bit LTS) on RPI 4B except pts/build-linux-kernel which takes a very long time ( I had to terminate it twice after 3 hours or so).

Does that sound dubious? If not, any alternative suite I could use? Thanks.

@boseabhishek - It shouldn't take that long, unless maybe you have a very slow microSD card you're booting from. It normally takes 1-2 hours on a Pi 4 - see geerlingguy/sbc-reviews#4

Thanks @geerlingguy for the link. I'm using a 64 GB USB stick to boot from and all other suites did pretty well. But, again I'll dig deeper. Thanks for your reply again.

I've just added env vars to override PHP_VERSION and PTS_VERSION, making it easier to run on different OSes like Debian 12 (PHP 8.2) or Ubuntu 24.04 (PHP 8.3) without modifying the script.

I've also updated the Gist to work on Fedora/RHEL/Rocky Linux/CentOS.

For macOS, I will need to make a few changes, like:

• Document that Homebrew should already be installed
• Set PHORONIX_CONFIG_PATH="~/.phoronix-test-suite"
• Remove the if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ] root user requirement
• Tweak the distro detection PHP installation bit, to add Darwin and set up brew install php

I am a little surprised the Phoronix suite has no "default target"...

Going to run this on SpacemiT x100 chips. Thank you for sharing this script; just saved me hours from "quickly" learning how to use that suite lol.

@IngwiePhoenix - Haha yes, I think the problem is @michaellarabel targets so many different platforms, it is almost impossible to have a default suite that will run across all and give results that make sense to share, especially as new systems roll out (similar to like, Geekbench).

Like right now I haven't been able to get RISC-V chips to run the MP3 test at all, and usually there are problems with x264 as well...

I updated the script to git clone PTS at PTS_REF instead of installing 10.8.4. It doesn't seem like version tags propagate to releases anymore, and you're meant to just 'run from master'. Which seems a little annoying since I like targeting releases for benchmark tools... but oh well :)