[WBEL-users] nhfsstone

[sean at catfeeder.net]

> Sean Dogar wrote:
>
>> Has anybody used the nfs benchmarking utility "nhfsstone"?
>> I can run it, and I can see that it's doing work (it makes test
>> directories in the NFS-mounted directory that I start it from), but it
>> never finishes it's testing or gives me any performance info.  I've
>> tried the various options, including a -t 120 (I thought that this
>> would restrict run-time to 120 seconds) and others, but I still get no
>> output, even with verbose.  It doesn't send any output to files
>> either.  It just runs and runs.
>> The man page is sort of vague, but I get the impression that you can
>> run it without any arguments, and it will do a test with the various
>> defaults, and eventually should return.
>> Does anybody have any idea on this or do you know somewhere to point
>> me for more info?  Most of the stuff I've found through Google has
>> been the man page itself.
>> -Sean
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> Is there any output from strace -p {process}when it hangs?
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It doesn't hang.  It's working, modifying its test files and so forth.  It
just never stops.

-Sean