2000-03-31 23:20:09 +04:00
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MailStone 4.15: Changes to Mailstone since version 4.1
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* Setup now checks license acceptance and configures a basic
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setup. By default, it will also create a user LDIF file with a
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'allusers' account.
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* All parameters and and testbed information may now be specified
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in the workload files (*.wld). New sections: CONFIG, CLIENT,
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MONITOR, PRETEST, and POSTTEST. Command line parameters still
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override the files. A complete copy of the configuration is saved
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in results/<TIMESTAMP>/all.wld.
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* The '*.pl', '*.tbd', and 'config*' files in ./conf/ are
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2005-11-25 11:05:54 +03:00
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deprecated. These should still work, but the new sections are
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2000-03-31 23:20:09 +04:00
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simpler and more flexible.
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* Any CONFIG parameter can now be specified on the command line
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using the form: 'PARAMETER=value'. Note that PARAMETER is case
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insensitive. No whitespace is allowed before or after the '='.
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* The new switch '-l' or CONFIG parameter 'ClientCount' can now
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specify the total number of clients. The 'MaxClients' and
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'MaxThreads' parameters in each CLIENT section control load
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balancing. If the 'processes' and 'threads' parameters are set,
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then the load for that CLIENT section will not be adjusted, but
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will be taken into account when calculating other CLIENT sections.
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If just 'processes' is set, then only the thread count will be
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adjusted. All hosts in a CLIENT section will run the same number
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of processes and threads.
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* bin/makeusers.pl now creates users, broadcast account, etc.
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Numbered passwords are now suppored. The new user/password format
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now replaces '%ld' with the user number to match the rest of
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mailstone. The ldif/ directory is obsolete. Run "perl/bin/perl
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bin/makeusers.pl -h" for usage.
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* NT client machines may now be used from a Unix test master. See
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conf/sample.wld for configuration details.
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* Commands can now be run for a specified block count, error
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count, or time (whichever comes first). Set 'maxBlocks' and/or
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'maxErrors'.
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* Telemetry logging to /var/tmp/mstone-log.pn.tn is now performed
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when "telemetry 1" is specified.
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* The name used in the "CLIENT" section is now used to match
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"HOSTS=..." qualifier. Compatibility with "hostname" is no longer
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needed.
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* Config values can now use quoted characters such as \n, \r, \t
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* Config values can be continued using \ (backslash)
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* System configuration information (SYSCONFIG) can now be
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specified entirely within a workload file by quoting the newlines.
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* Config values get enclosing double-quotes stripped
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* Preliminary support for HTTP and WMAP (WebMail) testing.
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* New table formats are easier to interpret and allow more protocols.
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* The new text format report is easier to machine processes.
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* The following command line switches are now obsolete: -f, -g,
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-e, -p, and -l. The same functionality can be obtained by
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FREQUENCY=<interval>, GNUPLOT=<path>, RSH=<path>, RCP=<path>, and
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TEMPDIR=<directory> respectively.
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* File backups are now created. When ./process is run multiple
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times, the old files are moved to the ./tmp/<TIMESTAMP>/
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directory.
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* perl has been updated to include full perl5.005_03 install
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package. Perl support for each architecture is now under the
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perl/ directory.
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