Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:37:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:37:58 -0400 Received: from gremlin.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.70]:63394 "HELO gremlin.ics.uci.edu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:37:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:40:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Mukesh Rajan To: kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de cc: Linux Kernel Subject: HDD test bench In-Reply-To: <20020710231335.GG29001@khan.acc.umu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 19 hi, i am currently exploring some power optimization algorithm for HDs exploiting multiple power states. i am looking for suggestions to generate a test bench simulating user activity. i will have to open and read/write to files on the basis of a trace file. currently i'm doing it in a very ad hoc fashion. i have some 100 dummy files of varying sizes and generating random read/write requests. any better way would be appreciated. thanks, mukesh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/