Thanks for starting this discussion Jay ! >> dstat - This is the existing perf tool to get read/write/fs stats
My only concern about dstat is that it doesn't seem to give some important IO stats like avgrq-sz - size of the write request after merging several writes together into one big write ( indicates how sequential the IO is) wrqm_s - write requests merged per sec (also, could indicate how much of the total IO is sequential and can be grouped into one write on the disk) w/s - write IO requests per sec (indicates how many flushes the kafka broker is doing per sec) % busy - indicates how busy the disks are. At the very least, %busy is what we would like to know. Maybe I couldn't pass the right options to dstat. Does anyone have more ideas about dstat or some other perf tool, preferably one that would work on Linux ? Thanks, Neha On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Neha and I have been doing so work on perf testing. My past experience with > these perf and integration testing frameworks is that > > 1. This kind of testing is extremely important. At least as important as > unit testing. A lot of the bugs that are caught in production could be > caught be good integration tests but likely will never be caught be unit > tests. > 2. It is hard to get all your pieces scripted up so that you can fully > automate the perf analysis you want to do and run this every day. > 3. It requires dedicated hardware that doesn't change from day to day. > 4. One of the biggest problems is that perf code is always kind of an > afterthought. As a result one never gets to a framework that is good enough > to use. Instead you keep re-writing the same test harnesses over and over > but with little tweaks for each new test you need to run, then throwing that > code away because it is so specific it can't be reused. > > To hopefully help I started a wiki where we could work out some ideas for > this. The idea is basically just to dump out all the stats we have now to > CSV and do some analysis in R. Then script this up in a way that we can > craft "test scenarios" and run a bunch of these different configurations. > > Wiki here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Performance+testing > > Would love to hear people's thoughts. > > -Jay >
