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

2008-05-30 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
I had this idea that I was going to implement in uperf. We provide a "statistics" flowop with various options for collecting different kinds of data. This way the user can specify what they need collected (and what penalty they are willing to pay). You could probably have a "stats-start" and 'sta

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. we were doing some hardware array tests an

Re: [perf-discuss] Having trouble getting filebench to work

2008-05-30 Thread Mark Gritter
Thanks, David. That worked (as did bumping the amount of memory for the virtual machine.) Mark This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [perf-discuss] Having trouble getting filebench to work

2008-05-30 Thread David Miller
Hi Mark, How much memory do you have on the system? By default, Solaris now allows a user to allocate up to 1/4 of that for shared memory. If you don't have 80G or more, the allocation will fail. You can change that by altering the project value for the user for project.max-shm-memory. See "ma

Re: [perf-discuss] Having trouble getting filebench to work

2008-05-30 Thread Rayson Ho
Looks like this problem: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=220575 Rayson On 5/30/08, Mark Gritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I first tried compiling filebench on a Linux (Ubuntu 8.04) system. While the > compilation worked, even the simplest tests (sequential read) deadlock

[perf-discuss] Having trouble getting filebench to work

2008-05-30 Thread Mark Gritter
I first tried compiling filebench on a Linux (Ubuntu 8.04) system. While the compilation worked, even the simplest tests (sequential read) deadlocked without doing any work. Is there a Linux patch floating about at the moment? I installed OpenSolaris (2008.05) under VMware Workstation and inst

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

2008-05-30 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
eric kustarz stated: < > < > 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: sometime

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