From da2999b6315463975be52f8384e9cacdfcac9d42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "robodan%netscape.com" Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:20:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] split off old ChangeLog stuff --- mstone/ChangeLog | 209 +-------------------------------------------- mstone/ChangeLog.1 | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mstone/ChangeLog.2 | 77 +++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-) create mode 100644 mstone/ChangeLog.1 create mode 100644 mstone/ChangeLog.2 diff --git a/mstone/ChangeLog b/mstone/ChangeLog index efd788a1927f..7db5b0f8f719 100644 --- a/mstone/ChangeLog +++ b/mstone/ChangeLog @@ -17,212 +17,5 @@ Mstone - version 4.x test (e.g. smtp). * Converted ChangeLog to more common formating - -MailStone 4.15: Changes to Mailstone since version 4.1 - - * Setup now checks license acceptance and configures a basic - setup. By default, it will also create a user LDIF file with a - 'allusers' account. - - * All parameters and and testbed information may now be specified - in the workload files (*.wld). New sections: CONFIG, CLIENT, - MONITOR, PRETEST, and POSTTEST. Command line parameters still - override the files. A complete copy of the configuration is saved - in results//all.wld. - - * The '*.pl', '*.tbd', and 'config*' files in ./conf/ are - depreciated. These should still work, but the new sections are - simpler and more flexible. - - * Any CONFIG parameter can now be specified on the command line - using the form: 'PARAMETER=value'. Note that PARAMETER is case - insensitive. No whitespace is allowed before or after the '='. - - * The new switch '-l' or CONFIG parameter 'ClientCount' can now - specify the total number of clients. The 'MaxClients' and - 'MaxThreads' parameters in each CLIENT section control load - balancing. If the 'processes' and 'threads' parameters are set, - then the load for that CLIENT section will not be adjusted, but - will be taken into account when calculating other CLIENT sections. - If just 'processes' is set, then only the thread count will be - adjusted. All hosts in a CLIENT section will run the same number - of processes and threads. - - * bin/makeusers.pl now creates users, broadcast account, etc. - Numbered passwords are now suppored. The new user/password format - now replaces '%ld' with the user number to match the rest of - mailstone. The ldif/ directory is obsolete. Run "perl/bin/perl - bin/makeusers.pl -h" for usage. - - * NT client machines may now be used from a Unix test master. See - conf/sample.wld for configuration details. - - * Commands can now be run for a specified block count, error - count, or time (whichever comes first). Set 'maxBlocks' and/or - 'maxErrors'. - - * Telemetry logging to /var/tmp/mstone-log.pn.tn is now performed - when "telemetry 1" is specified. - - * The name used in the "CLIENT" section is now used to match - "HOSTS=..." qualifier. Compatibility with "hostname" is no longer - needed. - - * Config values can now use quoted characters such as \n, \r, \t - - * Config values can be continued using \ (backslash) - - * System configuration information (SYSCONFIG) can now be - specified entirely within a workload file by quoting the newlines. - - * Config values get enclosing double-quotes stripped - - * Preliminary support for HTTP and WMAP (WebMail) testing. - - * New table formats are easier to interpret and allow more protocols. - - * The new text format report is easier to machine processes. - - * The following command line switches are now obsolete: -f, -g, - -e, -p, and -l. The same functionality can be obtained by - FREQUENCY=, GNUPLOT=, RSH=, RCP=, and - TEMPDIR= respectively. - - * File backups are now created. When ./process is run multiple - times, the old files are moved to the ./tmp// - directory. - - * perl has been updated to include full perl5.005_03 install - package. Perl support for each architecture is now under the - perl/ directory. - -MailStone 4.1: Changes to since version 4.0 - - * threads are used on all platforms reduces memory requirements by - 10x for large numbers of clients must run as root for maximum - connections per process - - * massive internal code and script cleanup / rewrite performance - improvements for socket handling (blocking) and caching files and - name lookups - - * filename and path conventions restructuring '/mailstone' - hardwired path no longer required mailstone/results/index.html - (index of test runs) mailstone/results//stderr (look - here for errors) mailstone/results//results.html - mailstone/results//results.txt - mailstone/results//work.wld (workload config used) - mailstone/results//testbed.tbd (testbed used) - mailstone/results//summary.csv (per client summary) - mailstone/results//*.gif (graphs) - mailstone/tmp//*.out (raw results from each client) - mailstone/conf/*.wld (workload file) mailstone/conf/*.html - (machine descriptions for reports) mailstone/data/*.msg (sample - test messages) - - * periodic statistics reporting allows for trend analysis of many - variables per protocol. sampling rate is automatically determined - by mailmaster Can now generate on-the-fly reports for above by - running "process" - - * The accountFormat directive is now obsolete. Use loginFormat - and addressFormat instead. - - * The numAccounts and beginAccounts directives are now obsolete. - Use numLogins, firstLogin, numAddresses, and firstAddress instead. - - * The sequentialLogins directive disables random account number - selection. This insures a predictable account sequence. - - * The checkMailInterval directive for IMAP is now obsolete. Use - loopDelay instead. - - * The directives idleTime, loopDelay, and numLoops now apply to - all protocols. See the manual for how loopDelay and numLoops are - used by each protocol. - - * a command directive such as without HOSTS=xxx will now - apply to all clients in the testbed - - * directive for workload and testbed files (e.g. for - user profile) - - * workloads are now passed to 'mailclient' through stdin no test - specific files need to be copied to client machines more - synchonized test startup - - * 'setup' script will copy mailclient and test messages - (data/*.msg) to each testbed machine in /var/tmp - - * 'cleanup' form of setup will remove mailclient and test messages - from each testbed machine in /var/tmp - - * 'checktime' form of setup will (nearly) simultaneously retrieve - time from each client. This lets you easily check for clock - problems. - - * 'timesync' form of setup will (nearly) simultaneously set time - on each client. This only works on OSs that support setting - seconds through the "date" command. rdate or ntpdate should be - used if available. You must be the root user and be able to rsh - as root for timesync to work. - - * Improved reports in text and html (formatting and content) - - * The text version of the report is now only displayed - automatically if "-v" is given. - - * Graphs with more than one protocol will also display a "Total" - graph - - * The graphs can now be customized for each test (see sample.wld - for the default) - - * You can now add graphs (in addition to the default or configured - ones) by using "process timestamp -a conf/moregraph.wld". - - * An informative index of test runs is now generated in - results/index.html - - * The index is updated while the run is in progress to make - checking for errors easier. - - * The error log now displays times relative to test start. - - * Memory use while processing results has been greatly reduced. - - * A summary of the data from each process is now saved in a - Comma-separated-value (CSV) file. results/timestamp/clients.csv - - * A summary of the data over time is now saved in a - Comma-separated-value (CSV) file. - results/timestamp/protocol-time.csv - - * new gnuplot binary included, can output directly to gif format - - * read and write performance numbers now reported separately - - * new runtime banners and copyrights (ooh boy) - - * idleTime option for IMAP fixed, plus now applies to all commands - - * blockTime now sets a delay between command blocks - - * Process model is as follows - User runs the top-level 'mstone' script - This calls 'conf/testname.pl' with command line arguments - This calls 'mailmaster.pl' with config and command line arguments - mailmaster uses 'rsh' or equivalent to launch mailclients - mailclient runs on each testbed and forks numprocs - each proc spawns numthreads (one per client) - - (note: results are being sent continuously) - - threads send results back through sockets to top mailclient - mailclient forwards results back over stdout via rsh pipe - (for future work - do some data reduction/combining here) - mailmaster directs output to each client- file - mailmaster launches report generator - - * sample LDIF fragment for a postmaster entry included + * Spilt off old ChangeLog entries to ChangeLog.1 and ChangeLog.2 diff --git a/mstone/ChangeLog.1 b/mstone/ChangeLog.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fb70edf5c313 --- /dev/null +++ b/mstone/ChangeLog.1 @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +MailStone 4.1: Changes to since version 4.0 + + * threads are used on all platforms reduces memory requirements by + 10x for large numbers of clients must run as root for maximum + connections per process + + * massive internal code and script cleanup / rewrite performance + improvements for socket handling (blocking) and caching files and + name lookups + + * filename and path conventions restructuring '/mailstone' + hardwired path no longer required mailstone/results/index.html + (index of test runs) mailstone/results//stderr (look + here for errors) mailstone/results//results.html + mailstone/results//results.txt + mailstone/results//work.wld (workload config used) + mailstone/results//testbed.tbd (testbed used) + mailstone/results//summary.csv (per client summary) + mailstone/results//*.gif (graphs) + mailstone/tmp//*.out (raw results from each client) + mailstone/conf/*.wld (workload file) mailstone/conf/*.html + (machine descriptions for reports) mailstone/data/*.msg (sample + test messages) + + * periodic statistics reporting allows for trend analysis of many + variables per protocol. sampling rate is automatically determined + by mailmaster Can now generate on-the-fly reports for above by + running "process" + + * The accountFormat directive is now obsolete. Use loginFormat + and addressFormat instead. + + * The numAccounts and beginAccounts directives are now obsolete. + Use numLogins, firstLogin, numAddresses, and firstAddress instead. + + * The sequentialLogins directive disables random account number + selection. This insures a predictable account sequence. + + * The checkMailInterval directive for IMAP is now obsolete. Use + loopDelay instead. + + * The directives idleTime, loopDelay, and numLoops now apply to + all protocols. See the manual for how loopDelay and numLoops are + used by each protocol. + + * a command directive such as without HOSTS=xxx will now + apply to all clients in the testbed + + * directive for workload and testbed files (e.g. for + user profile) + + * workloads are now passed to 'mailclient' through stdin no test + specific files need to be copied to client machines more + synchonized test startup + + * 'setup' script will copy mailclient and test messages + (data/*.msg) to each testbed machine in /var/tmp + + * 'cleanup' form of setup will remove mailclient and test messages + from each testbed machine in /var/tmp + + * 'checktime' form of setup will (nearly) simultaneously retrieve + time from each client. This lets you easily check for clock + problems. + + * 'timesync' form of setup will (nearly) simultaneously set time + on each client. This only works on OSs that support setting + seconds through the "date" command. rdate or ntpdate should be + used if available. You must be the root user and be able to rsh + as root for timesync to work. + + * Improved reports in text and html (formatting and content) + + * The text version of the report is now only displayed + automatically if "-v" is given. + + * Graphs with more than one protocol will also display a "Total" + graph + + * The graphs can now be customized for each test (see sample.wld + for the default) + + * You can now add graphs (in addition to the default or configured + ones) by using "process timestamp -a conf/moregraph.wld". + + * An informative index of test runs is now generated in + results/index.html + + * The index is updated while the run is in progress to make + checking for errors easier. + + * The error log now displays times relative to test start. + + * Memory use while processing results has been greatly reduced. + + * A summary of the data from each process is now saved in a + Comma-separated-value (CSV) file. results/timestamp/clients.csv + + * A summary of the data over time is now saved in a + Comma-separated-value (CSV) file. + results/timestamp/protocol-time.csv + + * new gnuplot binary included, can output directly to gif format + + * read and write performance numbers now reported separately + + * new runtime banners and copyrights (ooh boy) + + * idleTime option for IMAP fixed, plus now applies to all commands + + * blockTime now sets a delay between command blocks + + * Process model is as follows + User runs the top-level 'mstone' script + This calls 'conf/testname.pl' with command line arguments + This calls 'mailmaster.pl' with config and command line arguments + mailmaster uses 'rsh' or equivalent to launch mailclients + mailclient runs on each testbed and forks numprocs + each proc spawns numthreads (one per client) + + (note: results are being sent continuously) + + threads send results back through sockets to top mailclient + mailclient forwards results back over stdout via rsh pipe + (for future work - do some data reduction/combining here) + mailmaster directs output to each client- file + mailmaster launches report generator + + * sample LDIF fragment for a postmaster entry included diff --git a/mstone/ChangeLog.2 b/mstone/ChangeLog.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a73e22cc0c1c --- /dev/null +++ b/mstone/ChangeLog.2 @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +MailStone 4.15: Changes to Mailstone since version 4.1 + + * Setup now checks license acceptance and configures a basic + setup. By default, it will also create a user LDIF file with a + 'allusers' account. + + * All parameters and and testbed information may now be specified + in the workload files (*.wld). New sections: CONFIG, CLIENT, + MONITOR, PRETEST, and POSTTEST. Command line parameters still + override the files. A complete copy of the configuration is saved + in results//all.wld. + + * The '*.pl', '*.tbd', and 'config*' files in ./conf/ are + depreciated. These should still work, but the new sections are + simpler and more flexible. + + * Any CONFIG parameter can now be specified on the command line + using the form: 'PARAMETER=value'. Note that PARAMETER is case + insensitive. No whitespace is allowed before or after the '='. + + * The new switch '-l' or CONFIG parameter 'ClientCount' can now + specify the total number of clients. The 'MaxClients' and + 'MaxThreads' parameters in each CLIENT section control load + balancing. If the 'processes' and 'threads' parameters are set, + then the load for that CLIENT section will not be adjusted, but + will be taken into account when calculating other CLIENT sections. + If just 'processes' is set, then only the thread count will be + adjusted. All hosts in a CLIENT section will run the same number + of processes and threads. + + * bin/makeusers.pl now creates users, broadcast account, etc. + Numbered passwords are now suppored. The new user/password format + now replaces '%ld' with the user number to match the rest of + mailstone. The ldif/ directory is obsolete. Run "perl/bin/perl + bin/makeusers.pl -h" for usage. + + * NT client machines may now be used from a Unix test master. See + conf/sample.wld for configuration details. + + * Commands can now be run for a specified block count, error + count, or time (whichever comes first). Set 'maxBlocks' and/or + 'maxErrors'. + + * Telemetry logging to /var/tmp/mstone-log.pn.tn is now performed + when "telemetry 1" is specified. + + * The name used in the "CLIENT" section is now used to match + "HOSTS=..." qualifier. Compatibility with "hostname" is no longer + needed. + + * Config values can now use quoted characters such as \n, \r, \t + + * Config values can be continued using \ (backslash) + + * System configuration information (SYSCONFIG) can now be + specified entirely within a workload file by quoting the newlines. + + * Config values get enclosing double-quotes stripped + + * Preliminary support for HTTP and WMAP (WebMail) testing. + + * New table formats are easier to interpret and allow more protocols. + + * The new text format report is easier to machine processes. + + * The following command line switches are now obsolete: -f, -g, + -e, -p, and -l. The same functionality can be obtained by + FREQUENCY=, GNUPLOT=, RSH=, RCP=, and + TEMPDIR= respectively. + + * File backups are now created. When ./process is run multiple + times, the old files are moved to the ./tmp// + directory. + + * perl has been updated to include full perl5.005_03 install + package. Perl support for each architecture is now under the + perl/ directory.