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
#
# To set a different PHP_VERSION (e.g. if you're on a newer OS):
#   sudo PHP_VERSION="8.3" ./pi-general-benchmark.sh

# Fail on error.
set -e

# Allow PHP_VERSION to be overridden.
PHP_VERSION="${PHP_VERSION:-8.2}"
PTS_VERSION="${PTS_VERSION:-10.8.4}"

# 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.
apt-get install -y php${PHP_VERSION}-cli php${PHP_VERSION}-xml

# Download test suite.
curl -LO https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/releases/phoronix-test-suite-${PTS_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar -xvf phoronix-test-suite-${PTS_VERSION}.tar.gz
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

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.