Hi all, High on our list at the recent Linux Foundation end user summit was obtaining a method of obtaining enterprise workloads (or simulators) we can run in our own testing environments. The main problem being that the data sets used by the systems are usually secret or under regulatory embargo and thus unobtainable. However, several participants noted that regulatory prohibitions also extended to their own in-house IT team, thus they had had to develop simulators for the workloads which, since they contained no customer data, might be more widely distributable. Fidelity National Information Service were the first to try this. They've kicked off a sourceforge site for their stress testing tool (which is the same tool they use in their own qualification labs). The source for the tool is available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11026&package_id=298597 And it comes with a fairly detailed readme explaining what it's trying to simulate and why. Hopefully this will give us all a much better insight into both enterprise workloads and the way enterprise IT departments conduct testing. Let's see how our storage and filesystem tuning measures up to this. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
