Re: [perf-discuss] filebench source hints at raw device support

2008-11-24 Thread Richard McDougall
Drew: I had sent Erik a wad of changes that added a "raw:" syntax to enable raw devices in the path string. Do you know if that was integrated? Thanks, Richard. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:perf-discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Wilson > Sent: M

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench source hints at raw device support

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Wilson
Demetri, It is defined in "config.h". If you are getting the sources from the SourceForge source tree, it is very obsolete. The tar package for 1.3.4 is the latest one on SourceForge, and does support the raw devices (files). Also, you can go to opensolaris.org and download from the source t

[perf-discuss] ucodeadm what does it really do?

2008-11-24 Thread Andre Lue
Can someone explain what ucodeadm -u code update does? What are adv, disadv? I ask because a ucodeadm -v on snv_98 shows microcode version 0x09 after a ucodeadm -u intel-ucode.txt it shows 0x17? It says to be used after boot etc. Can someone explain? thanks -- This message posted from opensola

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench source hints at raw device support

2008-11-24 Thread Demetri S. Mouratis
O.k. I downloaded the source version instead of the Solaris packaged version, followed the instructions in INSTALL, and added some debug log messages to fileset.c. I don't think HAVE_RAW_SUPPORT is getting defined :-( I'm having a little trouble finding my way around the configure process. Wh

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench source hints at raw device support

2008-11-24 Thread Demetri S. Mouratis
Oops. Let me check one more thing. I see that fileset.c is checking for block special, not character-special (as did your example in the posting; sorry!) Let me try block-special just to see if it recognizes it as a 'raw' device, but I'd like to be able to use the character-special device so

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench source hints at raw device support

2008-11-24 Thread Demetri S. Mouratis
Hmmm. Still no luck. For example, I'm trying: define file name=c3t50060E80047F0B02d3s4, path=/dev/rdsk define process name=randWriteProcess,instances=$nprocs { thread name=randWriteThread1, memsize=16m, instances=$nthreads { flowop write name=randWriter1, filename=c3t5006

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench source hints at raw device support

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Wilson
On 11/21/08 15:09, Demetri S. Mouratis wrote: > Dear filebench gang, > > fileset.c shows some evidence of a way to use filebench against individual > raw device files instead of the 0001/0001 directory structure implied > by fileset names. I've been staring at it an hour or more, and I c