Re: [perf-discuss] Filebench Source Code

2009-02-24 Thread eric kustarz
(Reposting this as my original reply appeared in its own thread) As Drew pointed out, filebench is included in /usr/benchmarks already in OpenSolaris (and if its not, then you should be able to get it via IPS). I just downloaded the source, built it (following the directions found in the INSTALL

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19

2009-02-20 Thread eric kustarz
> Further, the package build from SourceForge doesn't install properly on > OpenSolaris 2008.11 amd64, doesn't run properly on Linux, and doesn't build > on Mac OS X. I would be happy to provide input and work-arounds, but I can't > tell if it's worth the trouble, as all activity on filebench ap

[perf-discuss] filebench 1.3.4 now available

2008-09-12 Thread eric kustarz
Fellow FileBenchers, Version 1.3.4 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133644 1.3.4 includes fixes for: 6695801 fileset_pick() lock contention with many threads 6711285 perf regression with (lots of) robust locks since robust locks got revisited (PSARC 200

Re: [perf-discuss] [storage-discuss] vdbench availability to the general community ?

2008-06-04 Thread eric kustarz
On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 03:32:47PM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: >> >> On May 29, 2008, at 11:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> I remember another hardware arrays (yes, two arrays) test

Re: [perf-discuss] [storage-discuss] vdbench availability to the general community ?

2008-06-03 Thread eric kustarz
On May 29, 2008, at 11:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:04:21PM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: >>> >>> Currently both tools gives different view of io. While filebench >>> simulates real workload, it cannot show what vdbench shows. >&g

Re: [perf-discuss] [storage-discuss] vdbench availability to the general community ?

2008-05-30 Thread eric kustarz
On May 30, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote: > eric kustarz stated: > < > > < > Currently both tools gives different view of io. While filebench > < > simulates real workload, it cannot show what vdbench shows. > < > E.g.

Re: [perf-discuss] [storage-discuss] vdbench availability to the general community ?

2008-05-29 Thread eric kustarz
> > Currently both tools gives different view of io. While filebench > simulates real workload, it cannot show what vdbench shows. > E.g. we were doing some hardware array tests and it turned out (using > vdbench) that the array works in a really strange way: sometimes its > IOPS jumps very high, s

[perf-discuss] FileBench now available for gentoo and OSX

2008-05-12 Thread eric kustarz
fellow filebenchers, Version 1.3.1 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133644 Thanks to Denis' changes, FileBench is once again buildable on Linux: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=57737&tstart=15 In addition, I made some minor changes t

[perf-discuss] filebench-1.3.0 posted

2008-05-05 Thread eric kustarz
fellow filebenchers, Version 1.3.0 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133644 Version 1.3.0 adds support for composite flowops as detailed here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=58827&tstart=0 http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/images/3

Re: [perf-discuss] port filebench to linux

2008-04-28 Thread eric kustarz
> >>> 3. Please give some more description about every part of the source >>> tree, which provided on the sourceforge? >> There is a fairly detailed description of how filebench works on >> SolarisInternals.com. Also documentation on the "f" language is >> there. > you mean the wiki documentation

Re: [perf-discuss] Building FileBench 1.2.1 on Solaris SPARC

2008-03-27 Thread eric kustarz
Instead of 'lex', try using 'flex'. I was able to build successfully with: fsh-suzuki% flex --version flex version 2.5.4 fsh-suzuki% fsh-suzuki% make package ... flex -t parser_lex.l > parser_lex.c source='parser_lex.c' object='parser_lex.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/parser_lex.Po' tmpdepfile=

[perf-discuss] filebench-1.2.1 now available

2008-03-26 Thread eric kustarz
Fellow filebenchers, Version 1.2.1 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133644 This add's Drew's random variables as mentioned at: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=190041𮙙 http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/images/1/1d/ FileBench_Rando

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench 1.1.1 now available

2008-02-28 Thread eric kustarz
On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Jonathan Edwards wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:39 PM, eric kustarz wrote: >> Fellow filebenchers, >> >> Version 1.1.1 is now available at: >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133644 > > thanks eric .. >

[perf-discuss] filebench 1.1.1 now available

2008-02-28 Thread eric kustarz
Fellow filebenchers, Version 1.1.1 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133644 This adds Drew's "run to completion" mode as detailed at: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=52153&tstart=0 With this, life is much nicer for workloads that are

Re: [perf-discuss] New FileBench code uploaded to SourceForge

2008-01-02 Thread eric kustarz
Excellent news! Yes, indeed, let's work together to get a stable and complete code drop that fully works on both OpenSolaris and Linux. eric This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [perf-discuss] New FileBench code uploaded to SourceForge

2007-12-19 Thread eric kustarz
I've updated the build infrastructure so it all should work (on Solaris10 as well as Nevada): http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/filebench_1_1_0_complete There are even pre-built packages of the latest version of FileBench (1.1.0) (that work on s10 and Nevada). Let me know if you run into a

[perf-discuss] FileBench's build infrastructure for sourceforge has been updated

2007-12-19 Thread eric kustarz
I'm happy to report that we have updated the building process on the sourceforge site so that anyone can do a complete build with the updated source (as in the freshest FileBench source in the world). This complete build not only builds the open source parts (go_filebench, filebench.pl, wor

Re: [perf-discuss] Webrev posted for Filebench fixes / enhancements

2007-12-07 Thread eric kustarz
Yep, these changes look great. Besides the very nice merge of files into filesets and others, a special thanks for fixing up oltp.f. eric This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [perf-discuss] filesize incorrect

2007-11-01 Thread eric kustarz
I've filed: 6624946 filemicro_seqread.f uses fileset instead of file to track this. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [perf-discuss] two filebench questions

2007-10-31 Thread eric kustarz
hey Marion, If you need just the binaries for 1.0.0, then you can either simply upgrade to the latest ON build (76+) or if you download the source and build it, then you'll create the package (SUNWfilebench) yourself. Sorry for the delay, but we do have someone cleaning up the Makefiles/puttin

Re: [perf-discuss] filesize incorrect

2007-10-31 Thread eric kustarz
Isn't this a bug in the workload definition? filemicro_seqread.f specifies the file you're sequentially reading as a fileset: " define fileset name=bigfileset,path=$dir,size=$filesize,entries=$nthreads,dirwidth=1024,prealloc=100,cached=$cached " I believe that should be a 'file' - much like sing

Re: [perf-discuss] 27390: 10.489: filereaderthread: exiting flowop

2007-10-23 Thread eric kustarz
I would guess that you aren't giving FileBench enough work to do, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/filebench/gotchas/ http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench#Recommended_parameters eric This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [perf-discuss] Building FileBench 1.0

2007-10-06 Thread eric kustarz
On Oct 6, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > eric kustarz wrote: >> When the SFW gate can handle CTF then we can talk. Until then ON >> is the only way to go for what we wanted. > > No gate outside ON can handle CTF until ON decides to make it > a

Re: [perf-discuss] Building FileBench 1.0

2007-10-06 Thread eric kustarz
When the SFW gate can handle CTF then we can talk. Until then ON is the only way to go for what we wanted. eric This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [perf-discuss] Filebench on multiple volumes/file systems

2007-08-30 Thread eric kustarz
On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:55:24AM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: >> No official way to do it now, but something i would definitely >> like to see happen. >> >> Another hackish way is to run multiple instances at th

Re: [perf-discuss] Filebench on multiple volumes/file systems

2007-08-29 Thread eric kustarz
No official way to do it now, but something i would definitely like to see happen. Another hackish way is to run multiple instances at the same time (each with its own $dir specified). Coordinating the separate instances and aggregating the data would be tricky. Part of this ties into getting

Re: [perf-discuss] getting filebench to open files for read only

2007-08-10 Thread eric kustarz
Cool. Yeah we'll definitely take a look at your suggested fix. Just need to see if it makes more sense/fits the framework to pass in a mode argument instead of dup'ing functionality. We'll look to see if we could do something akin to: flowop openfile name=openfile1,filesetname=bigfileset,f

Re: [perf-discuss] can't get filebench to work

2007-08-03 Thread eric kustarz
Once the FileBench ARC case finishes up, then we'll update sourceforge with our changes. After that, we'll finish up the process work of getting FileBench into OpenSolaris. The ARC case should be done within a week. You can track it here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/200

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 19

2007-07-30 Thread eric kustarz
> > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:28:43 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [perf-discuss] filebench on linux > To: perf-discuss@opensolaris.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" > > Hello, > > I was able to get

Re: [perf-discuss] can't get filebench to work

2007-07-30 Thread eric kustarz
Did you install filebench as a package? What does 'pkginfo -l filebench' return? Have you changed the default location of where 'filebench' resides? The version you're using should be expecting 'filebench' to live in /opt/filebench/bin/filebench. eric This message posted from opensolaris.

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench open modes

2007-07-24 Thread eric kustarz
hiyah bruce, Yeah looks like filebench is being lazy and not using workload specifics on whether or not to open the file read only or rw. Out of curiosity, is the delegation problem (what should be unnecesary) recalls? I'll track that bug... (and yep, there appears to be a delay on when email

[perf-discuss] Re: filebench dormant on sourceforge?

2007-06-01 Thread eric kustarz
Hey Tim, Funny you should ask. We are actually heavily in the midst of updating filebench. Part of that will be integrating it into ON (yes we will kick back all changes to sourceforge). Spencer is heading up the work to create a NFSv3/v4 plug-in very much along the lines of what you are thi

[perf-discuss] setting the random seed for filebench?

2005-10-13 Thread eric kustarz
Is there a way to set the seed value for random IO workloads in filebench (so that i can fairly compare random IO runs)? eric This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

[perf-discuss] Re: random read write workload

2005-10-11 Thread eric kustarz
thanks richard and in case the suspense was killing you, here's what i originally posted to a Sun internal list... " hey fellow benchers, I was looking for a workload to do random reads and writes at the same time... didn't see one, so i merged the multistreamread.f and randomread.f workloads:

[perf-discuss] random read write workload

2005-10-11 Thread eric kustarz
hey fellow benchers, I was looking for a workload to do random reads and writes at the same time... didn't see one, so i merged the multistreamread.f and randomread.f workloads: # # Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. # # The contents of this file are subject to the te