gecko-dev/mstone/ChangeLog.2
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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/<TIMESTAMP>/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 The ldif/ directory is obsolete.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=<interval>, GNUPLOT=<path>, RSH=<path>, RCP=<path>, and
TEMPDIR=<directory> respectively.
* File backups are now created. When ./process is run multiple
times, the old files are moved to the ./tmp/<TIMESTAMP>/
directory.
* perl has been updated to include full perl5.005_03 install
package. Perl support for each architecture is now under the
perl/ directory.