Try changing the run 10 to sleep 10... Richard.
On 12/2/08 8:34 AM, "Demetri S. Mouratis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gang, I'm having trouble getting the 'foreach' syntax to loop through different I/O sizes. Here is a sample of code I'm trying to get working: #!/opt/filebench/bin/go_filebench -f # define file name=data, path=/filebench/local, size=128m, prealloc, reuse define process name=randWriteProcess,instances=1 { thread name=randWriteThread1, memsize=8m, instances=1 { flowop write name=randWriter1, filename=data, iosize=$iosize, random } } foreach $iosize in 8k, 16k, 64k { run 10 } But it hangs on the second iteration: $ ./foreach.f FileBench Version 1.3.4 27404: 0.030: Iterating $iosize=8192 27404: 0.030: Creating/pre-allocating files and filesets 27404: 0.042: File data: mbytes=128 27404: 0.042: Re-using file data. 27404: 0.043: Creating file data... 27404: 0.063: Preallocated 1 of 1 of file data in 1 seconds 27404: 0.063: waiting for fileset pre-allocation to finish 27404: 0.064: Starting 1 randWriteProcess instances 27405: 1.069: Starting 1 randWriteThread1 threads 27404: 4.078: Running... 27404: 14.178: Run took 10 seconds... 27404: 14.180: Per-Operation Breakdown randWriter1 854ops/s 6.6mb/s 1.0ms/op 112us/op-cpu 27404: 14.180: IO Summary: 8627 ops 854.3 ops/s, (0/854 r/w) 6.6mb/s, 336us cpu/op, 1.0ms latency 27404: 14.180: Shutting down processes 27404: 17.208: Iterating $iosize=16384 27404: 17.209: Creating/pre-allocating files and filesets 27404: 17.209: File data: mbytes=128 27404: 17.209: Re-using file data. 27404: 17.209: Creating file data... 27404: 19.619: Preallocated 1 of 1 of file data in 3 seconds 27404: 19.619: waiting for fileset pre-allocation to finish [hangs forever, calling nanosleep once a second] There are no foreach examples in filebench/workloads, so I'm wondering if other people are having success with this. ...Demetri -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org