Idea -- Gentoo At Home or Acovea At Home

[thechris]

i was reading on the acovea website that any benchmark that took 1 minute to compile and 1 minute to run would take over 5 days to complete.

one of the criticisms of acovea is that its fairly vague in the tests. what do these tests mean? they test some mathmatical stuff.

My proposal is an idea for a distributed processing for these long acovea runs. basically more elaborate tests could be done for more specific packages. information from acovea runs could be added to a database and then general optimizations and package specific optimizations could be identified. the general optimizations could be forwarded to the package developers as suggestion and then could be shown to gentoo users.

as i see it, if you did 4 hours of acovea per day for 100 users, you could accumulate 16 days of runs in one day. this means you could do testbenchs that take a total of 4 minutes per run and get same day results.

The issues as i see them are:
1.) acovea testbenches must be secured and stripped of dangerous options. i suggest that the acovea-at-home be implemented from inside a chrooted environment and that code be screened for possible malicious code before it is compiled and executed.
2.) it must run with minimal other things running. so checks need to be in place to assure some quality of testing.

[.:deadhead:.]

Being Acovea so hardware dependant it's quite useless.

Acovea stress your hardware, and the resulting flags [after a serius test set (5 times maybe)] can be used only on your machine or on identical machine.

Imagine all the variables present in your PC [processor, RAM, mobo]...

The only thing you can do is:

1) run it in init 1, zero daemons,, so you'll have clean results
2) run it multiple times
3) take a looooot of time

cya
_________________
Proudly member of the Gentoo Documentation Project: the Italian Conspiracy !

[ewan.paton]

i doubt amount ram{1} and motherboard chipsets would affect the performance of a binary leaving the cpu as the major variable. ignoring steppings there are really only six x86 cpu cores that could be variables gentoo users are likely to have pentium2,3 and 4, the athlon, athlon xp and amd64 so a pretty good idea

i may be wrong if different frequency cores have different performance but even then if enough people were involved it would solve this

other variables such as key software components like gcc would also have to be listed

{1} fsb maybe but still dubious
_________________
Giay tay nam | Giay nam cao cap | Giay luoi

[.:deadhead:.]