filebench(1) (man pages section 1: User Commands)

man pages section 1: User Commands

filebench(1)

Name

filebench– framework of workloads to measure and compare filesystem performance

Synopsis

/usr/benchmarks/filebench/bin/filebench profile

/usr/benchmarks/filebench/bin/filebench -c stats_dir...

Description

filebench runs workloads to measure and compare filesystem performance.

Full documentation can be found at the performance community at: http://www.opensolaris.org

Options

The following options are supported:

-c stats_dir...: Generates a HTML file (index.html) that is a comparison of the specified directories. stats_dir specifies the directory or directories in which the results are stored.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

profile

Specifies the name of the configuration file ending in .prof. The configuration file specifies:

what workloads to run,
what parameters to run,
the directory path on which to operate, and
the directory path in which to store the results.

Exit Status

The following exit values are returned:

0: Successful completion.
1: An error occurred.
2: Invalid command line options were specified.

Examples

Example 1 Running the Multi-stream Sequential Read Workload

The following example runs the workloads described in the configuration file named sqread.prof:

# filebench sqread

Example 2 Comparing Multiple Runs

The following example compares the results of two previous runs.

This example assumes that the results from the two previous filebench runs were located in the directories: /stats/wombat-zfs-noel-Jun_27_2007-15h_45m_33s and /stats/wombat-ufs-noel-Jun_27_2007-15h_52m_11s.

This example generates a HTML file named index.html in your current working directory.

# filebench -c /stats/wombat-zfs-noel-Jun_27_2007-15h_45m_33s \
      /stats/wombat-ufs-noel-Jun_27_2007-15h_52m_11s

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWfilebench
Interface Stability	Uncommitted