Bonnie++ integration (PSARC/2008/461)

[David.Fan at sun.com]

I just chatted with Brendan Gregg.  He has a concern about bonnie++ and 
filebench which is developed by PAE.  Looks like PAE wants to be careful 
of what benchmark tool goes into Solaris.  I will wait for the analysis 
from Brendan and PAE.

In the meantime, I have two updates on the ARC case.

1) I want to move the bonnie++ from /usr/bin to /usr/sfw/bin

      /usr/sfw/bin/bonnie++          Committed      Executable location
      /usr/sfw/bin/bon_csv2html      Committed      Executable location
      /usr/sfw/bin/bon_csv2txt       Committed      Executable location


2) Fix a typo on Steven Le's email address.  It should be steven.le at sun.com.

Thanks,
dfan



Danek Duvall wrote:
> I'm sponsoring this case for David Fan.  The requested release binding is
> Patch (though to my knowledge there's no current intention to backport to
> S10).  The case times out Monday, July 28.
> 
> Danek
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> 1. Background
> 
>   This project proposes to integrate Bonnie++[1], a freeware benchmark
>   suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard
>   drive and file system performance.  The program tests database type
>   access to a single file (or a set of files if you wish to test more
>   than 1G of storage), and it tests creation, reading, and deleting
>   of small files which can simulate the usage of programs such as
>   Squid, INN, or Maildir format email.  Bonnie++ was based on the code
>   from Bonnie by Tim Bray[2]. Here is a summary of the difference
>   between Bonnie 1.0 and Bonnie++ 1.0 is available at
>   http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/diff.html
> 
>   This project intends to integrate into the SFW consolidation, and
>   will be installed as SUNWbonnieplus.
> 
>   1.1  Name of Document Author/Supplier:
> 
>        david.fan at sun.com
>        steve.le at sun.com
> 
>   1.2  Date of This Document:
> 
>        7/17/2008
> 
> 2. Architecture
> 
>   The architecture, as relevant to integration in Solaris is simple.
>   There are three executables: bonnie++, bon_csv2html, bon_csv2txt.
>   Bonnie++ adds the facility to test more than 2G of storage on a 32bit
>   machine, and tests for file creat(), stat(), unlink() operations.
>   Also it will output in CSV spread-sheet format to standard output.
>   If you use the "-q" option for quiet mode then the human-readable
>   version will go to stderr so redirecting stdout to a file will get
>   only the csv in the file.
> 
>   The program bon_csv2html takes csv format data on stdin and writes a
>   HTML file on standard output which has a nice display of all the data.
> 
>   The program bon_csv2txt takes csv format data on stdin and writes a
>   formatted plain text version on stdout, this was originally written
>   to work with 80 column braille displays, but can also work well in email.
> 
> 3. Dependencies
> 
>     Perl 5.0 or higher.
> 
>     SUNWperl(>=5.0)core & SUNWperl(>=5.0)usr are expected to be available
>     on the system.
> 
> 4. Interfaces
> 
>     Exported Interfaces
>     -------------------
>     SUNWbonnieplus             Uncommitted    Package name
>     /usr/bin/bonnie++          Committed      Executable location
>     /usr/bin/bon_csv2html      Committed      Executable location
>     /usr/bin/bon_csv2txt       Committed      Executable location
> 
>     Imported Interfaces
>     -------------------
>     /usr/perl5/bin/perl        Committed      PSARC/1999/192
> 
> 5. Man pages
> 
>     materials/bonnie++.8
>     materials/bon_csv2html.1
>     materials/bon_csv2txt.1
> 
> 6. References
> 
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonnie/
> [2] http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
>