Have you tried TestDFSIO? I think it's quite a good benchmark to measure the performance of HDFS. If you want to know how to write data to HDFS directly, you can read its code.
Da On 1/28/11 6:36 PM, Pei HE wrote: > Hi all, > I want to know the detailed performance of Hadoop. > > I am writing a client code to test the latency, transfer speed of > HDFS, and the time of initiating a JVM for a task. > > Does anyone know that which classes can be called without running a > whole map/reduce job to find out the performance of Hadoop? > > I am trying to create a DFSClient in the following way. > Configuration conf = new Configuration(); > DFSClient client = new DFSClient(conf); > client.exists("hdfs://localhost:9900/home/"); > But, a RemoteException was thrown. > > Could anyone help me about that? > > Thanks > -- > Pei >