[Disksim-users] Simulating multiple processes (applications) withtrace-driven simulation

[Steve]

I suggest you should take disksim as a slave module and write a load generator to replay I/O trace.	
In my opinion, it is easy for a newbie to use disksim and hard to revise disksim.

All the best.
				 
　　　　　　　　Steve
　　　　　　　　zgy04 at 126.com
　　　　　　　　2007-05-20


======= 2007-05-20 10:09:35 Yipkei Kwok Written: =======

>Hi,
>
>My goal is to simulating the I/O system activities under multiple
>(simulated) application workloads. We have looked at the
>synthetic-driven simulation and, now, we want to look at the
>trace-driven simulation.
>
>I have checked the format of the 3 types of traces: ascii, validate
>and raw. None of them allows specifying the generating process
>(application) of each request.
>
>According to the user manual, at most 1 trace can be used for each run
>of simulation. I am wondering if it is possible to supply n traces to
>the simulation if I want to simulate n processes (applications). Or,
>if it is possible to tag the process ID of the generating process to
>each request in the trace.
>
>Looking forward to hear from you. Thank you!
>
>Regards,
>Yipkei
>
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