[p4] Automated testing of a new installation

[Weintraub, David]

I'm a software person, so I don't know too much about testing hardware.
However, I've been talking to several people about monitoring tools for
hardware and networks, and got a few recommendations:

Munin: An open source, web-based system monitoring system that uses Perl
scripting. Even though it is Perl based, it is architecture specific,
and generally works on Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, and Solaris. That pretty
much covers all major operating systems. (Wait, what's that other one?
Oh yeah, Windows. Apparently Munin doesn't yet do Windows). See
<http://munin.projects.linpro.no/>. You can see a demo here:
<http://munin.ping.uio.no/>

Ocra: From OcraWare. Another monitoring system, but this focuses more on
routers and networks than Munin does. Ocra works on Solaris and Linux.
(Heck, who uses AIX anyway?). Demos of Ocra can be found on
<http://www.orcaware.com/orca/example_sites.html>.

NISCA: Focuses mostly on networks, but does run on Windows (unlike the
first two). http://nisca.sourceforge.net/. Sample reports can be found
on <http://www.isthisthingon.org/statsdemo/>.

I know this doesn't answer the original question, but I thought it might
be useful.

-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Michael
McTernan
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:13 PM
To: 'Noah Salzman'
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Automated testing of a new installation

Hi,

> Are you looking for things that (specifically thrash p4d)

Yes - specifically thrashing p4d.  Ideally collecting some performance
data for comparison against the old system, although that maybe a lot to
ask.

> (that just eat up CPU on linux)

while(1) fork();  !!!

> or (stress the file system on Linux)?

Iozone is quite a good filesystem benchmark that we've tried.

Kind Regards,

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Salzman [mailto:noah at ncircle.com]
> Sent: 06 June 2006 18:08
> To: Michael McTernan
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Automated testing of a new installation
> 
> 
> On Jun 6, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Michael McTernan wrote:
> 
> > We are planning a move from Win2k to Linux, and would like to know 
> > if anyone has tools to test our new platform and installation.  The 
> > sort of thing we would like is something to thrash the server and 
> > put it under heavy load so that we know it will perform well before 
> > rolling it out into the production environment.
> >
> > Anyone got any good scripts or tools to do this that they are 
> > willing to share?
> 
> 
> Are you looking for things that (specifically thrash p4d) or things
> (that just eat up CPU on linux) or (stress the file system on Linux)?
> 
> 
> 

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