You might need to install filebench explicitly in /usr/local/filebench
on Linux to avoid this error...

Richard.

 On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:13:41PM -0700, John Vijoe George wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to get filebench to run on my Linux ( RHEL 5 ) machine - 
> 2.6.18-8.el5. I managed to install filebench-1.64 successfully, but when I 
> try to run it, I get the following errors:
> 
> filebench> load varmail
> 16683: 5.618: Varmail Version 1.24 2005/06/22 08:08:30 personality 
> successfully loaded
> 16683: 5.618: Usage: set $dir=<dir>
> 16683: 5.618:        set $filesize=<size>    defaults to 16384
> 16683: 5.618:        set $nfiles=<value>     defaults to 1000
> 16683: 5.618:        set $nthreads=<value>   defaults to 16
> 16683: 5.618:        set $meaniosize=<value> defaults to 16384
> 16683: 5.618:        set $meandirwidth=<size> defaults to 1000000
> 16683: 5.618: (sets mean dir width and dir depth is calculated as log (width, 
> nfiles)
> 16683: 5.618:  dirdepth therefore defaults to dir depth of 1 as in postmark
> 16683: 5.618:  set $meandir lower to increase depth beyond 1 if desired)
> 16683: 5.618:  
> 16683: 5.618:        run runtime (e.g. run 60)
> 16683: 5.618: syntax error, token expected on line 51
> filebench> run 10
> 16683: 7.826: Fileset bigfileset: 1000 files, avg dir = 1000000.0, avg depth 
> = 0.5, mbytes=16
> 16683: 7.843: Removed any existing fileset bigfileset in 1 seconds
> 16683: 7.843: Creating fileset bigfileset...
> 16683: 7.891: Preallocated 805 of 1000 of fileset bigfileset in 1 seconds
> 16683: 7.891: Creating/pre-allocating files
> 16683: 7.891: Starting 1 filereader instances
> 16683: 7.891: procflow exec proc failed: Permission denied on line 52
> 16683: 32.905: Waiting for process filereader-1 16686
> 16683: 35.906: Waiting for process filereader-1 16686
> 16683: 38.908: Failed to start process filereader-1
> 16683: 38.908: Running...
> 16683: 39.911: Run took 1 seconds...
> 16683: 39.912: Per-Operation Breakdown
> closefile4                  0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> readfile4                   0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> openfile4                   0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> closefile3                  0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> fsyncfile3                  0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> appendfilerand3             0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> readfile3                   0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> openfile3                   0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> closefile2                  0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> fsyncfile2                  0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> appendfilerand2             0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> createfile2                 0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> deletefile1                 0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
> 
> 16683: 39.912: 
> IO Summary:          0 ops   0.0 ops/s, (0/0 r/w)   0.0mb/s,      0us cpu/op, 
>   0.0ms latency
> 16683: 39.912: Shutting down processes
> 
> 
> 
> i have no idea as to why this is happening. Any input is appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> John G
>  
> 
> 
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