Test Day:2009-10-22 Power Management

DATE	WHEN	WHERE
2009-10-22	From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT)	#fedora-test-day (webirc)

Under construction
The site is still under construction. Anything can change before the testday.

Purpose of this test

TODO
Some text here. ;)

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, general discussion ...

• Development - Phil Knirsch, Marcela Maslanova (marcela on irc), Petr Lautrbach, Jiri Skala (skalnik on irc)
• Quality Assurance - David Pravec (dpravec), Jan Scotka

Prerequisite

TODO
Upload new RPM, update its name, what about signing it?

• Rawhide (development version of Fedora) with graphical environment
• SELinux disabled
• Internet connection
• The special-purpose Testday RPM package which includes necessary dependencies and provides all testing scripts.
  • Download and install with: yum --nogpgcheck localinstall testday-pm-0.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
• Kernel debugging info:
  • Use debuginfo-install kernel or install it manually. (In case of manual installation you have to enable debug repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo.)
  • Versions of kernel and kernel-debuginfo must be the same. Please check it with:
    • uname -a
    • rpm -q kernel-debuginfo
• Upload your hardware to Smolt according to these instructions.

Running the tests

Update your machine

See the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide.

Tests

The test cases are split into test groups. Some of the tests are a bit time-consuming. Please perform as many tests as possible. If you aren't able to run them all, please remember that the tests in each table are sort by importance in descending order.

You don't have to download any special scripts for each test. Our Testday package provides following commands:

• testday-run-testname (performing tests)
• testday-pack-results (packing results of all tests in .tag.gz file)

Privileges
Please perform all tests as a regular user. Some tests require superuser permission. In these cases you will be informed by testing script.

X Window System

These tests should be performed on all systems in X11 environment.

Testcase	Description	ETA
personal	Typical use of computer (do whatever you are doing usually). CPU states and frequencies.	10 minutes
scomes	Ticks, syscall count, read/written bytes when performing some specific tasks.	1 minute

Single mode

These tests should be performed in single mode. We recommend reading the description of both tests and performing these in sequence - to refrain more reboots.

Testcase	Description	ETA
tuned	CPU states and frequencies when tuning daemon enabled	7 minutes
basic	Stress situations (BZIP2 compression, disk copying, vsftpd test)	2 minutes

Laptops

Estimated time: 20-35 minutes

Following tests are intended only for laptops. If you don't have a laptop, don't perform these tests because there is no easy way how to measure your system consumption. You need to charge your battery before.

TestCase	Description	Extra Requirements
QA:Testcase_Power_Management_bltk	3 workloads (Idle, OpenOffice, reader) measure power consumption of simulated reproducable load	OpenOffice is required during bltk installation, Firefox
QA:Testcase_Power_Management_tuned-adm	Measuring tuned profiles with bltk	tuned-adm, bltk

Test Results

TODO
Hmm. We have to change this.

Construct a table or list to allow testers to post results. Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. For example:

User	Smolt Profile	PM Personal test	PM scomes test	PM tuned test	PM init1 test	PM BLTK test	PM tuned-adm test	References
User:FasUser	HW	2.40 Ghz 1.5% 2.14 Ghz 0.0% 1.87 Ghz 0.0% 1.60 Ghz 98.5% Wakeups-from-idle per second : 99.5 interval: 30.0s	PASS	FAIL	2.40 Ghz 1.5% 2.14 Ghz 0.0% 1.87 Ghz 0.0% 1.60 Ghz 98.5% Wakeups-from-idle per second : 99.5 interval: 30.0s	PASS	PASS