Re: [perf-discuss] OpenSolaris SWAT and VDbench

2008-12-02 Thread Henk Vandenbergh
Jean, there are no plans to make Swat or Vdbench part of Solaris. Vdbench 5.00 can be found on http://vdbench.org The latest release of Swat (3.01) is now available for the general public. You can find a link on my blog: http://blogs.sun.com/henk/entry/swat_3_01_now_available Henk. -- This messag

[perf-discuss] Can't get FileBench foreach to work

2008-12-02 Thread Demetri S. Mouratis
Gang, I'm having trouble getting the 'foreach' syntax to loop through different I/O sizes. Here is a sample of code I'm trying to get working: #!/opt/filebench/bin/go_filebench -f # define file name=data, path=/filebench/local, size=128m, prealloc, reuse define process name=randWriteProcess,ins

[perf-discuss] How to dig deeper

2008-12-02 Thread Hans-Peter
In order to get more information on IO performance problems I created the script below: #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s #pragma D option flowindent syscall::*write*:entry /pid == $1 && guard++ == 0/ { self -> ts = timestamp; self->traceme = 1; printf("fd: %d", arg0); } fbt::: /self->