From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 5 10:28: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89AFB37B405; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:28:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from murdoch.servitor.co.uk (murdoch.servitor.co.uk [217.151.99.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3B243FD7; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:27:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@iconoplex.co.uk) Received: from mmu-firewall.mmu.ac.uk ([149.170.101.200] helo=miter96pq2w1fz) by murdoch.servitor.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.33 #3) id 18qdcO-000MxB-00; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:27:52 +0000 From: "Paul Robinson" To: "Adam Migus" , Cc: , , Subject: RE: Disk scheduling in FreeBSD Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:27:33 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <49978.192.168.4.2.1046845181.squirrel@mail.migus.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike, > I don't have the test, but I've built a generic performance > testing framework for FreeBSD over the past couple of months > that would make running such a test trivial. I'd post a link > but the page has no permanent home yet. When it gets one I can > follow it up with a link. I'd be happy to give it a home sometime next week when I've done some housekeeping on the server... > For now, the application called "boot_tester" allows the user to > run a set of commands (usually performance tests) on boot. The > framework optionally creates a new filesystem work area and > outputs in a standard format. The commands are run for n > iterations (one per boot) over an array of kernels. If used > with the diskless testbed setup I've started developing to use > with it, running tests over arbitrary worlds as well as kernels > is trivial and can be automated. sounds interesting. I have a few scripts that were a start at some performance testing, particularly with I/O and VM in mind. Sounds like you're much further along than I am. Any chance you can throw me a tar.gz? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message