I am running a very large profile with about 40 workloads...it runs a few hours. I upped the runtime to 5 minutes (300) to try to ensure the CPU is balanced out.
Obviously, I don't watch the terminal window during the run ;-) When I'm done, things don't add up. For 40 x 5 minute tests, we're looking at 3 hours 20 minutes without the setup and teardown. Some of my ZFS tests are finishing in under 3 hours (substantially). A few tests are core dumping, but that still doesn't help bring it down. It "seems" like I can use the creation time of thisrun.f and the creation time of the .out file as guidance to bracket the length of the run (hopefully that's a valid assumption). Many of the runs look to be 5 minutes...but many of them finish in under a minute...and there appears to be good data in them. So, my question is...is the runtime parameter merely guidance and if the filesize/threads/iosize etc... are small enough and the machine is fast enough, could workloads "finish" prior to their runtime parameter? Or, is the workload always supposed to adhere to the runtime? (btw, some tests do go long in the 20 minute ballpark on slow configurations) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
