mysql-stress-test.pl
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Name
mysql-stress-test.pl - server stress test program
Synopsis
mysql-stress-test.pl [options]
Description
MySQL Database System MYSQL-STRESS-TE(1)
NAME
mysql-stress-test.pl - server stress test program
SYNOPSIS
mysql-stress-test.pl [options]
DESCRIPTION
The mysql-stress-test.pl Perl script performs stress-testing
of the MySQL server. (MySQL 5.0 and up only)
mysql-stress-test.pl requires a version of Perl that has
been built with threads support.
Invoke mysql-stress-test.pl like this:
shell> mysql-stress-test.pl [options]
mysql-stress-test.pl supports the following options:
o --help
Display a help message and exit.
o --abort-on-error=N
Causes the program to abort if an error with severity
less than or equal to N was encountered. Set to 1 to
abort on any error.
o --check-tests-file
Periodically check the file that lists the tests to be
run. If it has been modified, reread the file. This can
be useful if you update the list of tests to be run
during a stress test.
o --cleanup
Force cleanup of the working directory.
o --log-error-details
Log error details in the global error log file.
o --loop-count=N
In sequential test mode, the number of loops to execute
before exiting.
o --mysqltest=path
The path name to the mysqltest program.
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o --server-database=db_name
The database to use for the tests. The default is test.
o --server-host=host_name
The host name of the local host to use for making a
TCP/IP connection to the local server. By default, the
connection is made to localhost using a Unix socket
file.
o --server-logs-dir=path
This option is required. path is the directory where
all client session logs will be stored. Usually this is
the shared directory that is associated with the server
used for testing.
o --server-password=password
The password to use when connecting to the server.
o --server-port=port_num
The TCP/IP port number to use for connecting to the
server. The default is 3306.
o --server-socket=file_name
For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to
use, or, on Windows, the name of the named pipe to use.
The default if /tmp/mysql.sock.
o --server-user=user_name
The MySQL user name to use when connecting to the
server. The default is root.
o --sleep-time=N
The delay in seconds between test executions.
o --stress-basedir=path
This option is required. path is the working directory
for the test run. It is used as the temporary location
for result tracking during testing.
o --stress-datadir=path
The directory of data files to be used during testing.
The default location is the data directory under the
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location given by the --stress-suite-basedir option.
o --stress-init-file[=path]
file_name is the location of the file that contains the
list of tests to be run once to initialize the database
for the testing. If missing, the default file is
stress_init.txt in the test suite directory.
o --stress-mode=mode
This option indicates the test order in stress-test
mode. The mode value is either random to select tests in
random order or seq to run tests in each thread in the
order specified in the test list file. The default mode
is random.
o --stress-suite-basedir=path
This option is required. path is the directory that has
the t and r subdirectories containing the test case and
result files. This directory is also the default
location of the stress-test.txt file that contains the
list of tests. (A different location can be specified
with the --stress-tests-file option.)
o --stress-tests-file[=file_name]
Use this option to run the stress tests. file_name is
the location of the file that contains the list of
tests. If file_name is omitted, the default file is
stress-test.txt in the stress suite directory. (See
--stress-suite-basedir.)
o --suite=suite_name
Run the named test suite. The default name is main (the
regular test suite located in the mysql-test directory).
o --test-count=N
The number of tests to execute before exiting.
o --test-duration=N
The duration of stress testing in seconds.
o --threads=N
The number of threads. The default is 1.
o --verbose
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Verbose mode. Print more information about what the
program does.
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ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+-------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-------------------+
|Availability | database/mysql-55 |
+---------------+-------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+-------------------+
SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference
Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is
also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
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NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://downloads.mysql.com/archives/mysql-5.5/mysql-5.5.31.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://dev.mysql.com/.
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