Edit File: README.stress
Overview -------- The stress script is designed to perform testing of the MySQL server in a multi-threaded environment. All functionality regarding stress testing is implemented in the mysql-stress-test.pl script. The stress script allows: - To stress test the mysqltest binary test engine. - To stress test the regular test suite and any additional test suites (such as mysql-test-extra-5.0). - To specify files with lists of tests both for initialization of stress db and for further testing itself. - To define the number of threads to be concurrently used in testing. - To define limitations for the test run. such as the number of tests or loops for execution or duration of testing, delay between test executions, and so forth. - To get a readable log file that can be used for identification of errors that occur during testing. There are two ways to run the mysql-stress-test.pl script: - For most cases, it is enough to use the options below for starting the stress test from the mysql-test-run wrapper. In this case, the server is run automatically, all preparation steps are performed, and after that the stress test is started. - In advanced case, you can run the mysql-stress-test.pl script directly. But this requires that you perform some preparation steps and to specify a bunch of options as well, so this invocation method may be a bit complicated. Usage ----- The following mysql-test-run options are specific to stress-testing: --stress Enable stress mode --stress-suite=<suite name> Test suite name to use in stress testing. We assume that all suites are located in the mysql-test/suite directory. There is one special suite name - <main|default> that corresponds to the regular test suite located in the mysql-test directory. --stress-threads=<number of threads> The number of threads to use in stress testing. --stress-tests-file=<filename with list of tests> The file that contains the list of tests (without .test suffix) to use in stress testing. The default filename is stress_tests.txt and the default location of this file is suite/<suite name>/stress_tests.txt --stress-init-file=<filename with list of tests> The file that contains list of tests (without .test suffix) to use in stress testing for initialization of the stress db. These tests will be executed only once before starting the test itself. The default filename is stress_init.txt and the default location of this file is suite/<suite name>/stress_init.txt --stress-mode=<method which will be used for choosing tests from the list> Possible values are: random(default), seq There are two possible modes that affect the order of test selection from the list: - In random mode, tests are selected in random order - In seq mode, each thread executes tests in a loop one by one in the order specified in the list file. --stress-test-count=<number> Total number of tests that will be executed concurrently by all threads --stress-loop-count=<number> Total number of loops in seq mode that will be executed concurrently by all threads --stress-test-duration=<number> Duration of stress testing in seconds Examples -------- 1. Example of a simple command line to start a stress test: mysql-test-run --stress alias Runs a stress test with default values for number of threads and number of tests, with test 'alias' from suite 'main'. 2. Using in stress testing tests from other suites: - mysql-test-run --stress --stress-threads=10 --stress-test-count=1000 \ --stress-suite=example --stress-tests-file=testslist.txt Runs a stress test with 10 threads, executes 1000 tests by all threads, tests are used from suite 'example', the list of tests is taken from file 'testslist.txt' - mysql-test-run --stress --stress-threads=10 --stress-test-count=1000 \ --stress-suite=example sum_distinct Runs stress test with 10 threads, executes 1000 tests by all threads, tests are used from suite 'example', the list of tests contains only one test 'sum_distinct' 3. Debugging of issues found with stress test Right now, the stress test is not fully integrated in mysql-test-run and does not support the --gdb option. To debug issues found with the stress test, you must start the MySQL server separately under a debugger and then run the stress test like this: - mysql-test-run --extern --stress --stress-threads=10 \ --stress-test-count=1000 --stress-suite=example \ sum_distinct
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