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Tests
Our battery of tests consists of four programs, read_8192, write_8192, write_4096 and rewrite_8192 originally written by [McKusick83] to evaluate the performance of the new file system in 4.2BSD. These programs all follow the same model and are typified by read_8192 shown here. #define BUFSIZ 8192 main( argc, argv) char **argv; { char buf[BUFSIZ]; int i, j; j = open(argv[1], 0); for (i = 0; i < 1024; i++) read(j, buf, BUFSIZ); } The remaining programs are included in appendix A.
These programs read, write with two different blocking factors, and rewrite logical files in structured file system on the disk under test. The write programs create new files while the rewrite program overwrites an existing file. Each of these programs represents an important segment of the typical UNIX file system activity with the read program representing by far the largest class and the rewrite the smallest.
A blocking factor of 8192 is used by all programs except write_4096. This is typical of most 4.2BSD user programs since a standard set of I/O support routines is commonly used and these routines buffer data in similar block sizes.
For each test run, an empty eight Kilobyte block file system was created in the target storage system. Then each of the four tests was run and timed. Each test was run three times; the first to clear out any useful data in the cache, and the second two to insure that the experiment had stablized and was repeatable. Each test operated on eight Megabytes of data to insure that the cache did not overly influence the results. Another file system was then initialized using a basic blocking factor of four Kilobytes and the same tests were run again and timed. A command script for a run appears as follows: #!/bin/csh set time=2 echo "8K/1K file system" newfs /dev/rhp0g eagle mount /dev/hp0g /mnt0 mkdir /mnt0/foo echo "write_8192 /mnt0/foo/tst2" rm -f /mnt0/foo/tst2 write_8192 /mnt0/foo/tst2 rm -f /mnt0/foo/tst2 write_8192 /mnt0/foo/tst2 rm -f /mnt0/foo/tst2 write_8192 /mnt0/foo/tst2 echo "read_8192 /mnt0/foo/tst2" read_8192 /mnt0/foo/tst2 read_8192 /mnt0/foo/tst2 read_8192 /mnt0/foo/tst2 umount /dev/hp0g .bp