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'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 :)