Benchmark tool

[rzs0502]

Hi there...

I am trying to find a tool to benchmark AIX servers before and after performance tuning changes.
eg. Yesterday I mounted Oracle filesystems with the Concurrent I/O option but would like a good way of testing the performance improvement (if any)

Thanks in advance...


"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[ogniemi]

maybe nmon is the one you can accept... ?

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/analyze_aix/

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/nmon_analyser/

 

[rzs0502]

Thanks ogniemi.
I use nmon on the boxes... Just thought there would be something that could simulate load on the box as well
I probably should've said Load Simulator rather than Benchmark tool.

Thx again

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[ogniemi]

maybe you can user PerfPMR - Performance Problem Reporting

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/tools/perftools/perfpmr/

 

[plamb]

to simulate load use "load runner" or silk

 

[ap1605]

I went to the AIX technical Conference in Barcelona.
They used in a presentation the tool SwingBench.
I am looking for a tool for AIX an DB2

 

[plamb]

Swingbench is a non-official GUI workload generation which is
downloadable from

http://www.dominicgiles.com/swingbench.php.

 

[rzs0502]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I've seen our DBA's use swingbench and it's pretty cool.
They systems I'm testing have either no database, or Informix or DB2
I'll probably look at writing something with Python to generate load and use nmon analyzer to check the results.
Thanks again....


"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[rzs0502]

Found this site with some useful utilities.
Think I'll try dbench

http://ltp.sourceforge.net/25_testplan.php

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."