22:03:39 <ekhurana> #startmeeting Performance Testing
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22:03:39 <odl_meetbot> The meeting name has been set to 'performance_testing'
22:04:06 <ekhurana> #info Daniel presented cbench limitations and then the enhances he made --> created wcbench (wrapper cbench)
22:04:25 <ekhurana> #info Daniel presented some other tools but community discussion is needed
22:04:56 <ekhurana> #info Jan, Netconf and Datastore scripts need to be checked in Integration Group repo
22:05:25 <ekhurana> #info Question:  Someone asked for a tool for jvm garbage collection
22:05:36 <ekhurana> #info One suggestion is jvm console
22:06:12 <ekhurana> #info CASP3R is looking for good use cases for how we can do performance testing
22:06:40 <ekhurana> #info we need a centralized place for current performance test cases
22:07:08 <ekhurana> #info Some of this has started (broken since Karaf) with wcbench
22:07:29 <ekhurana> #info Performance results need to be clarified for the community since HW might be different etc
22:08:15 <ekhurana> #info Plan for Lithium is to run perf tests on nightly builds and report current per stats
22:08:52 <ekhurana> #info A user guide needs to be written about the performance testing, environment and finally the location of the test results
22:09:09 <ekhurana> #info Metrics need to be clearly documented for the community
22:09:57 <ekhurana> #info Proposal to have a tool for complex data center like topologies.
22:10:05 <ekhurana> #info Daniel recommended to look at OFNET
22:11:03 <ekhurana> #info Performance testing should be aligned with Release Management (6-month for the release and nightly for the builds)
22:12:09 <ekhurana> #info What features should we install for the Performance Tests.
22:12:21 <ekhurana> #info How many cores do you have on the system?
22:12:37 <ekhurana> #info Is it a virtual OS or bare meetal?
22:13:45 <ekhurana> #info CASP3R stated that the LF test bed is known.  This should be documented as well
22:15:25 <ekhurana> #info Current Use Cases:  cbench (packe-in) and flows/sec or REST/sec
22:15:35 <ekhurana> #info new Use Case:  Discovery test cases
22:15:41 <ekhurana> #info Luis +2
22:15:53 <ekhurana> #info new Use Cases:  Statistics
22:16:53 <ekhurana> #info new Use Case:  Test cases for different SALs besides OF plugin.....currently NO
22:19:01 <ekhurana> #info Datastore test cases need to be checked into the repo /controller/md-sal/datastore something??  Need to check with Robert Varga
22:19:04 <ekhurana> #endmeeting