TY - GEN
T1 - A user-oriented synthetic workload generator
AU - Kao, Wei Iun
AU - Iyer, Ravishankar K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1992 IEEE.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - A user-oriented synthetic workload generator that simulates user file access behavior on the basis of real workload characterizations is described. The workload generator is designed for experiments and simulations related to file system analysis. The model for this workload generator is user-oriented and job-specific, represents file I/O operations at the system call level, allows general distributions for usage measures, and assumes independence in the file I/O operation stream. The workload generator consists of three parts that handle specification of distributions, creation of an initial file system, and selection and execution file I/O operations. Results from experiments on a network file system (NFS) verify that the workload generator can produce realistic workloads and demonstrate the application of the generator.
AB - A user-oriented synthetic workload generator that simulates user file access behavior on the basis of real workload characterizations is described. The workload generator is designed for experiments and simulations related to file system analysis. The model for this workload generator is user-oriented and job-specific, represents file I/O operations at the system call level, allows general distributions for usage measures, and assumes independence in the file I/O operation stream. The workload generator consists of three parts that handle specification of distributions, creation of an initial file system, and selection and execution file I/O operations. Results from experiments on a network file system (NFS) verify that the workload generator can produce realistic workloads and demonstrate the application of the generator.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICDCS.1992.235031
DO - 10.1109/ICDCS.1992.235031
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:3543133956
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
SP - 270
EP - 277
BT - Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 1992
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 1992
Y2 - 9 June 1992 through 12 June 1992
ER -