MYSQL-STRESS-TEST(1) MySQL Database System MYSQL-STRESS-TEST(1)NAMEmysql-stress-test.pl - server stress test program
SYNOPSISmysql-stress-test.pl [options]
DESCRIPTION
The mysql-stress-test.pl Perl script performs stress-testing of the
MySQL server. (MySQL 5.0 and up only)
mysql-stress-test.pl requires a version of Perl that has been built
with threads support.
Invoke mysql-stress-test.pl like this:
shell> mysql-stress-test.pl [options]
mysql-stress-test.pl supports the following options:
· --help
Display a help message and exit.
· --abort-on-error
Unknown.
· --check-tests-file
Periodically check the file that lists the tests to be run. If it
has been modified, reread the file. This can be useful if you update
the list of tests to be run during a stress test.
· --cleanup
Force cleanup of the working directory.
· --log-error-details
Log error details in the global error log file.
· --loop-count=N
In sequential test mode, the number of loops to execute before
exiting.
· --mysqltest=path
The path name to the mysqltest program.
· --server-database=db_name
The database to use for the tests.
· --server-host=host_name
The host name of the local host to use for making a TCP/IP
connection to the local server. By default, the connection is made
to localhost using a Unix socket file.
· --server-logs-dir=path
This option is required. path is the directory where all client
session logs will be stored. Usually this is the shared directory
that is associated with the server used for testing.
· --server-password=password
The password to use when connecting to the server.
· --server-port=port_num
The TCP/IP port number to use for connecting to the server. The
default is 3306.
· --server-socket=file_name
For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on
Windows, the name of the named pipe to use. The default if
/tmp/mysql.sock.
· --server-user=user_name
The MySQL user name to use when connecting to the server. The
default is root.
· --sleep-time=N
The delay in seconds between test executions.
· --stress-basedir=path
This option is required. path is the working directory for the test
run. It is used as the temporary location for result tracking during
testing.
· --stress-datadir=path
The directory of data files to be used during testing. The default
location is the data directory under the location given by the
--stress-suite-basedir option.
· --stress-init-file[=path]
file_name is the location of the file that contains the list of
tests. If missing, the default file is stress_init.txt in the test
suite directory.
· --stress-mode=mode
This option indicates the test order in stress-test mode. The mode
value is either random to select tests in random order or seq to run
tests in each thread in the order specified in the test list file.
The default mode is random.
· --stress-suite-basedir=path
This option is required. path is the directory that has the t and r
subdirectories containing the test case and result files. This
directory is also the default location of the stress-test.txt file
that contains the list of tests. (A different location can be
specified with the --stress-tests-file option.)
· --stress-tests-file[=file_name]
Use this option to run the stress tests. file_name is the location
of the file that contains the list of tests. If file_name is
omitted, the default file is stress-test.txt in the stress suite
directory. (See --stress-suite-basedir.)
· --suite=suite_name
Run the named test suite. The default name is main (the regular test
suite located in the mysql-test directory).
· --test-count=N
The number of tests to execute before exiting.
· --test-duration=N
The duration of stress testing in seconds.
· --test-suffix=str
Unknown.
· --threads=N
The number of threads. The default is 1.
· --verbose
Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/).
MySQL 04/30/2009 MYSQL-STRESS-TEST(1)
