[Gluster-devel] Open source SPC-1 Workload IO Pattern

Luis Pabón lpabon at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 19:10:45 UTC 2014


Interesting, I have never known about those tools.  They look great!  I 
will check them out.  Thanks Justin.

- Luis


On 11/18/2014 10:20 PM, Justin Clift wrote:
> Nifty. :)
>
> (Yeah, catching up on old unread email, as the wifi in this hotel is so
> bad I can barely do anything else.  8-10 second ping times to
> www.gluster.org. :/)
>
> As a thought, would there be useful analysis/visualisation capabilities
> if you stored the data into a time series database (eg InfluxDB) then
> used Grafana (http://grafana.org) on it?
>
> + Justin
>
>
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:01:56 +0100
> Luis Pabón <lpabon at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> I created a simple test program to visualize the I/O pattern of
>> NetApp’s open source spc-1 workload generator. SPC-1 is an enterprise
>> OLTP type workload created by the Storage Performance Council
>> (http://www.storageperformance.org/results).  Some of the results are
>> published and available here:
>> http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_active .
>>
>> NetApp created an open source version of this workload and described
>> it in their publication "A portable, open-source implementation of
>> the SPC-1 workload" (
>> http://www3.lrgl.uqam.ca/csdl/proceedings/iiswc/2005/9461/00/01526014.pdf
>> )
>>
>> The code is available onGithub: https://github.com/lpabon/spc1 .  All
>> it does at the moment is capture the pattern, no real IO is
>> generated. I will be working on a command line program to enable
>> usage on real block storage systems.  I may either extend fio or
>> create a tool specifically tailored to the requirements needed to run
>> this workload.
>>
>> On github, I have an example IO pattern for a simulation running 50
>> mil IOs using HRRW_V2. The simulation ran with an ASU1 (Data Store)
>> size of 45GB, ASU2 (User Store) size of 45GB, and ASU3 (Log) size of
>> 10GB.
>>
>> - Luis
>>
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