NFS utils package, and an fsx question

NFS utils package, and an fsx question

[Tom McNeal]

Hi -

I've created and tested a new NFS utils package, which can be
downloaded from 

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-utils-1-0-1-pre7.tar.gz

The tests consist of the 4 2002 Connectathon tests suites
(basic, general, special, and lock), fsx, a duplicate request
cache exerciser, and bonnie++, all running simultaneously
overnight.  I tested a 2.4.18 and 2.2.19  UP client against
2.4 and 2.2 UP servers.  The failure rate was less than 1%,
primarily due to interaction between special and general tests 
that I haven't quite figured out yet.

I see nothing in the utils package that tells me it isn't ready
for prime time.  I'd really like to see someone with MP platforms 
pick this up and test it, but other than that, I think its ready
to rename as release 1.0.1. BTW, I don't know the history of release
1.0.0; It was already 1.0.1-prex when I started working on it.

I have a couple of questions about fsx behavior:

 - It appears that with memory mapping allowed, fsx doesn't 
allow more than 12 operations running per test, regardless of 
the kernel; is this fixed with a later version of fsx, or maybe
I just have my system misconfigured?  My version of fsx is about
6  months old, and I didn't look at configuration at all.

 - In 2.2 kernels, the failure rate climbs significantly 
unless I cut the number of operations per test in half; once
I turned off memory mapping, I ran with 5000 ops in the 2.4 
kernel, but had to run about 2500 ops in the 2.2 client kernel
to get the same failure rate (~1%).  Is this a suprise?

Tom

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Re: NFS utils package, and an fsx question

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Tom McNeal <trmcneal@attbi.com> writes:

     > The tests consist of the 4 2002 Connectathon tests suites
     > (basic, general, special, and lock), fsx, a duplicate request
     > cache exerciser, and bonnie++, all running simultaneously
     > overnight.  I tested a 2.4.18 and 2.2.19 UP client against
     > 2.4 and 2.2 UP servers.  The failure rate was less than 1%,
     > primarily due to interaction between special and general tests
     > that I haven't quite figured out yet.

Any details on the failures? 2.4.18 was tested extensively at Cthon
with no problems being observed...

Cheers,
  Trond

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Re: NFS utils package, and an fsx question

[Tom McNeal]

What I see is this:

 - The tests fail most often when they are the only tests 
running, and nothing else is going on.  Generally, when I'm
doing the test run, I have all tests running 500 times, 
and I might see 2 or 3 of these failures.

 - The special tests fail with this error:

--
SPECIAL TESTS: directory /mnt/first/usr/local/NFSTest
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/first/usr/local/NFSTest': File exists
cd /mnt/first/usr/local/NFSTest; rm -f runtests runtests.wrk READWIN.txt
Makefile op_unlk op_ren op_chmod dupreq excltest negseek rename holey truncate
nfsidem nstat stat stat2 touchn fstat rewind telldir bigfile bigfile2 freesp
cp runtests runtests.wrk READWIN.txt Makefile op_unlk op_ren op_chmod dupreq
excltest negseek rename holey truncate nfsidem nstat stat stat2 touchn fstat
rewind telldir bigfile bigfile2 freesp /mnt/first/usr/local/NFSTest
runtests.wrk: runtests.wrk: No such file or directory
special tests failed
--

 - The general tests fail with this error:

--
GENERAL TESTS: directory /mnt/first/usr/local/NFSTest
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/first/usr/local/NFSTest': File exists
cd /mnt/first/usr/local/NFSTest; rm -f Makefile runtests runtests.wrk *.sh *.c
mkdummy rmdummy nroff.in makefile.tst
cp Makefile runtests runtests.wrk *.sh *.c mkdummy rmdummy nroff.in makefile.tst
/mnt/first/usr/local/NFSTest

Small Compile
runtests.wrk: line 85: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
runtests.wrk: line 88: syntax error: unexpected end of file
general tests failed
--

I think the issue is distructive interaction between the two
tests, since I am running them in tandem, rather than in
succession, as is done normally.  They generally fail together,
either once or twice each, and then start completing successfully
again.  

Tom


Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> >>>>> " " == Tom McNeal <trmcneal@attbi.com> writes:
> 
>      > The tests consist of the 4 2002 Connectathon tests suites
>      > (basic, general, special, and lock), fsx, a duplicate request
>      > cache exerciser, and bonnie++, all running simultaneously
>      > overnight.  I tested a 2.4.18 and 2.2.19 UP client against
>      > 2.4 and 2.2 UP servers.  The failure rate was less than 1%,
>      > primarily due to interaction between special and general tests
>      > that I haven't quite figured out yet.
> 
> Any details on the failures? 2.4.18 was tested extensively at Cthon
> with no problems being observed...
> 
> Cheers,
>   Trond

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