Bench Testing

[IriDium]

With Xbian now being supported on 3 different hardware (Cubox-i, Hummingboard and of course RPi) it dawned on me that we should have a standard to work with, so that with future upgrades and possibly new hardware (Banana Pi?) we would have standard performance details for all possible configurations.

So I had a look around and came up with Sysbench.

Full details are available in the link including installing and running the CPU and I/O tests.

For the CPU use sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=2000 run (As 20000 might take the RPi a while)
For the I/O use sysbench --test=fileio --file-total-size=1G prepare (As no one has 150G spare!!!)
For the execution use ... sysbench --test=fileio --file-total-size=1G --file-test-mode=rndrw --init-rng=on --max-time=300 --max-requests=0 run

To clear the file run sysbench --test=fileio --file-total-size=1G cleanup

CPU is total time
I/O is Kb/sec value

So if users could run the test on their machine, we will get a benchmark for different machines, which will assist in seeing if upgrades are faster, or if someone's machine is running slow (or faster for that matter). I don't have a basis yet for the norm, but I guess 10% either way is acceptable.

My results

Because the forum doesn't do formatting: Use
Model, Xbian Version, SD Card(speed), CPU result, I/O result

So:

Cubox-i4 Pro, RC3 (20141218), Kingston 4g(10), 23.9741s, 729.01Kb/sec