#opendaylight-devforum6: Performance Testing

Meeting summary

1. 1. Daniel presented cbench limitations and then the enhances he made --> created wcbench (wrapper cbench) (ekhurana, 22:04:06)
   2. Daniel presented some other tools but community discussion is needed (ekhurana, 22:04:25)
   3. Jan, Netconf and Datastore scripts need to be checked in Integration Group repo (ekhurana, 22:04:56)
   4. Question: Someone asked for a tool for jvm garbage collection (ekhurana, 22:05:25)
   5. One suggestion is jvm console (ekhurana, 22:05:36)
   6. CASP3R is looking for good use cases for how we can do performance testing (ekhurana, 22:06:12)
   7. we need a centralized place for current performance test cases (ekhurana, 22:06:40)
   8. Some of this has started (broken since Karaf) with wcbench (ekhurana, 22:07:08)
   9. Performance results need to be clarified for the community since HW might be different etc (ekhurana, 22:07:29)
   10. Plan for Lithium is to run perf tests on nightly builds and report current per stats (ekhurana, 22:08:15)
   11. A user guide needs to be written about the performance testing, environment and finally the location of the test results (ekhurana, 22:08:52)
   12. Metrics need to be clearly documented for the community (ekhurana, 22:09:09)
   13. Proposal to have a tool for complex data center like topologies. (ekhurana, 22:09:57)
   14. Daniel recommended to look at OFNET (ekhurana, 22:10:05)
   15. Performance testing should be aligned with Release Management (6-month for the release and nightly for the builds) (ekhurana, 22:11:03)
   16. What features should we install for the Performance Tests. (ekhurana, 22:12:09)
   17. How many cores do you have on the system? (ekhurana, 22:12:21)
   18. Is it a virtual OS or bare meetal? (ekhurana, 22:12:37)
   19. CASP3R stated that the LF test bed is known. This should be documented as well (ekhurana, 22:13:45)
   20. Current Use Cases: cbench (packe-in) and flows/sec or REST/sec (ekhurana, 22:15:25)
   21. new Use Case: Discovery test cases (ekhurana, 22:15:35)
   22. Luis +2 (ekhurana, 22:15:41)
   23. new Use Cases: Statistics (ekhurana, 22:15:53)
   24. new Use Case: Test cases for different SALs besides OF plugin.....currently NO (ekhurana, 22:16:53)
   25. Datastore test cases need to be checked into the repo /controller/md-sal/datastore something?? Need to check with Robert Varga (ekhurana, 22:19:01)

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