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+#!/bin/bash
+# REQUIRE: db_bench binary exists in the current directory
+#
+# This should be used with the LevelDB fork listed here to use additional test options.
+# For more details on the changes see the blog post listed below.
+#   https://github.com/mdcallag/leveldb-1
+#   http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2015/04/comparing-leveldb-and-rocksdb-take-2.html
+
+if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
+  echo -n "./benchmark.sh [fillseq/overwrite/readrandom/readwhilewriting]"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# size constants
+K=1024
+M=$((1024 * K))
+G=$((1024 * M))
+
+if [ -z $DB_DIR ]; then
+  echo "DB_DIR is not defined"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+output_dir=${OUTPUT_DIR:-/tmp/}
+if [ ! -d $output_dir ]; then
+  mkdir -p $output_dir
+fi
+
+# all multithreaded tests run with sync=1 unless
+# $DB_BENCH_NO_SYNC is defined
+syncval="1"
+if [ ! -z $DB_BENCH_NO_SYNC ]; then
+  echo "Turning sync off for all multithreaded tests"
+  syncval="0";
+fi
+
+num_threads=${NUM_THREADS:-16}
+# Only for *whilewriting, *whilemerging
+writes_per_second=${WRITES_PER_SECOND:-$((10 * K))}
+cache_size=${CACHE_SIZE:-$((1 * G))}
+
+num_keys=${NUM_KEYS:-$((1 * G))}
+key_size=20
+value_size=${VALUE_SIZE:-400}
+block_size=${BLOCK_SIZE:-4096}
+
+const_params="
+  --db=$DB_DIR \
+  \
+  --num=$num_keys \
+  --value_size=$value_size \
+  --cache_size=$cache_size \
+  --compression_ratio=0.5 \
+  \
+  --write_buffer_size=$((2 * M)) \
+  \
+  --histogram=1 \
+  \
+  --bloom_bits=10 \
+  --open_files=$((20 * K))"
+
+params_w="$const_params "
+
+function summarize_result {
+  test_out=$1
+  test_name=$2
+  bench_name=$3
+  nthr=$4
+
+  usecs_op=$( grep ^${bench_name} $test_out | awk '{ printf "%.1f", $3 }' )
+  mb_sec=$( grep ^${bench_name} $test_out | awk '{ printf "%.1f", $5 }' )
+  ops=$( grep "^Count:" $test_out | awk '{ print $2 }' )
+  ops_sec=$( echo "scale=0; (1000000.0 * $nthr) / $usecs_op" | bc )
+  avg=$( grep "^Count:" $test_out | awk '{ printf "%.1f", $4 }' )
+  p50=$( grep "^Min:" $test_out | awk '{ printf "%.1f", $4 }' )
+  echo -e "$ops_sec\t$mb_sec\t$usecs_op\t$avg\t$p50\t$test_name" \
+    >> $output_dir/report.txt
+}
+
+function run_fillseq {
+  # This runs with a vector memtable and the WAL disabled to load faster. It is still crash safe and the
+  # client can discover where to restart a load after a crash. I think this is a good way to load.
+  echo "Loading $num_keys keys sequentially"
+  cmd="./db_bench --benchmarks=fillseq \
+       --use_existing_db=0 \
+       --sync=0 \
+       $params_w \
+       --threads=1 \
+       --seed=$( date +%s ) \
+       2>&1 | tee -a $output_dir/benchmark_fillseq.v${value_size}.log"
+  echo $cmd | tee $output_dir/benchmark_fillseq.v${value_size}.log
+  eval $cmd
+  summarize_result $output_dir/benchmark_fillseq.v${value_size}.log fillseq.v${value_size} fillseq 1
+}
+
+function run_change {
+  operation=$1
+  echo "Do $num_keys random $operation"
+  out_name="benchmark_${operation}.t${num_threads}.s${syncval}.log"
+  cmd="./db_bench --benchmarks=$operation \
+       --use_existing_db=1 \
+       --sync=$syncval \
+       $params_w \
+       --threads=$num_threads \
+       --seed=$( date +%s ) \
+       2>&1 | tee -a $output_dir/${out_name}"
+  echo $cmd | tee $output_dir/${out_name}
+  eval $cmd
+  summarize_result $output_dir/${out_name} ${operation}.t${num_threads}.s${syncval} $operation $num_threads
+}
+
+function run_readrandom {
+  echo "Reading $num_keys random keys"
+  out_name="benchmark_readrandom.t${num_threads}.log"
+  cmd="./db_bench --benchmarks=readrandom \
+       --use_existing_db=1 \
+       $params_w \
+       --threads=$num_threads \
+       --seed=$( date +%s ) \
+       2>&1 | tee -a $output_dir/${out_name}"
+  echo $cmd | tee $output_dir/${out_name}
+  eval $cmd
+  summarize_result $output_dir/${out_name} readrandom.t${num_threads} readrandom $num_threads
+}
+
+function run_readwhile {
+  operation=$1
+  echo "Reading $num_keys random keys while $operation"
+  out_name="benchmark_readwhile${operation}.t${num_threads}.log"
+  cmd="./db_bench --benchmarks=readwhile${operation} \
+       --use_existing_db=1 \
+       --sync=$syncval \
+       $params_w \
+       --threads=$num_threads \
+       --writes_per_second=$writes_per_second \
+       --seed=$( date +%s ) \
+       2>&1 | tee -a $output_dir/${out_name}"
+  echo $cmd | tee $output_dir/${out_name}
+  eval $cmd
+  summarize_result $output_dir/${out_name} readwhile${operation}.t${num_threads} readwhile${operation} $num_threads
+}
+
+function now() {
+  echo `date +"%s"`
+}
+
+report="$output_dir/report.txt"
+schedule="$output_dir/schedule.txt"
+
+echo "===== Benchmark ====="
+
+# Run!!!
+IFS=',' read -a jobs <<< $1
+for job in ${jobs[@]}; do
+
+  if [ $job != debug ]; then
+    echo "Start $job at `date`" | tee -a $schedule
+  fi
+
+  start=$(now)
+  if [ $job = fillseq ]; then
+    run_fillseq
+  elif [ $job = overwrite ]; then
+    run_change overwrite
+  elif [ $job = readrandom ]; then
+    run_readrandom
+  elif [ $job = readwhilewriting ]; then
+    run_readwhile writing
+  elif [ $job = debug ]; then
+    num_keys=1000; # debug
+    echo "Setting num_keys to $num_keys"
+  else
+    echo "unknown job $job"
+    exit
+  fi
+  end=$(now)
+
+  if [ $job != debug ]; then
+    echo "Complete $job in $((end-start)) seconds" | tee -a $schedule
+  fi
+
+  echo -e "ops/sec\tmb/sec\tusec/op\tavg\tp50\tTest"
+  tail -1 $output_dir/report.txt
+
+done
diff --git a/tools/run_leveldb.sh b/tools/run_leveldb.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# REQUIRE: benchmark_leveldb.sh exists in the current directory
+# After execution of this script, log files are generated in $output_dir.
+# report.txt provides a high level statistics
+#
+# This should be used with the LevelDB fork listed here to use additional test options.
+# For more details on the changes see the blog post listed below.
+#   https://github.com/mdcallag/leveldb-1
+#   http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2015/04/comparing-leveldb-and-rocksdb-take-2.html
+#
+# This should be run from the parent of the tools directory. The command line is:
+#   [$env_vars] tools/run_flash_bench.sh [list-of-threads]
+#
+# This runs a sequence of tests in the following sequence:
+#   step 1) load - bulkload, compact, fillseq, overwrite
+#   step 2) read-only for each number of threads
+#   step 3) read-write for each number of threads
+#
+# The list of threads is optional and when not set is equivalent to "24". 
+# Were list-of-threads specified as "1 2 4" then the tests in steps 2, 3 and
+# 4 above would be repeated for 1, 2 and 4 threads. The tests in step 1 are
+# only run for 1 thread.
+
+# Test output is written to $OUTPUT_DIR, currently /tmp/output. The performance
+# summary is in $OUTPUT_DIR/report.txt. There is one file in $OUTPUT_DIR per
+# test and the tests are listed below.
+#
+# The environment variables are also optional. The variables are:
+#   NKEYS         - number of key/value pairs to load
+#   NWRITESPERSEC - the writes/second rate limit for the *whilewriting* tests.
+#                   If this is too large then the non-writer threads can get
+#                   starved.
+#   VAL_SIZE      - the length of the value in the key/value pairs loaded.
+#                   You can estimate the size of the test database from this,
+#                   NKEYS and the compression rate (--compression_ratio) set
+#                   in tools/benchmark_leveldb.sh
+#   BLOCK_LENGTH  - value for db_bench --block_size
+#   CACHE_BYTES   - the size of the RocksDB block cache in bytes
+#   DATA_DIR      - directory in which to create database files
+#   DO_SETUP      - when set to 0 then a backup of the database is copied from
+#                   $DATA_DIR.bak to $DATA_DIR and the load tests from step 1
+#                   This allows tests from steps 2, 3 to be repeated faster.
+#   SAVE_SETUP    - saves a copy of the database at the end of step 1 to
+#                   $DATA_DIR.bak.
+
+# Size constants
+K=1024
+M=$((1024 * K))
+G=$((1024 * M))
+
+num_keys=${NKEYS:-$((1 * G))}
+wps=${NWRITESPERSEC:-$((10 * K))}
+vs=${VAL_SIZE:-400}
+cs=${CACHE_BYTES:-$(( 1 * G ))}
+bs=${BLOCK_LENGTH:-4096}
+
+# If no command line arguments then run for 24 threads.
+if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
+  nthreads=( 24 )
+else
+  nthreads=( "$@" )
+fi
+
+for num_thr in "${nthreads[@]}" ; do
+  echo Will run for $num_thr threads
+done
+
+# Update these parameters before execution !!!
+db_dir=${DATA_DIR:-"/tmp/rocksdb/"}
+
+do_setup=${DO_SETUP:-1}
+save_setup=${SAVE_SETUP:-0}
+
+output_dir="/tmp/output"
+
+ARGS="\
+OUTPUT_DIR=$output_dir \
+NUM_KEYS=$num_keys \
+DB_DIR=$db_dir \
+VALUE_SIZE=$vs \
+BLOCK_SIZE=$bs \
+CACHE_SIZE=$cs"
+
+mkdir -p $output_dir
+echo -e "ops/sec\tmb/sec\tusec/op\tavg\tp50\tTest" \
+  > $output_dir/report.txt
+
+# Notes on test sequence:
+#   step 1) Setup database via sequential fill followed by overwrite to fragment it.
+#           Done without setting DURATION to make sure that overwrite does $num_keys writes
+#   step 2) read-only tests for all levels of concurrency requested
+#   step 3) non read-only tests for all levels of concurrency requested
+
+###### Setup the database
+
+if [[ $do_setup != 0 ]]; then
+  echo Doing setup
+
+  # Test 2a: sequential fill with large values to get peak ingest
+  #          adjust NUM_KEYS given the use of larger values
+  env $ARGS BLOCK_SIZE=$((1 * M)) VALUE_SIZE=$((32 * K)) NUM_KEYS=$(( num_keys / 64 )) \
+       ./tools/benchmark_leveldb.sh fillseq
+
+  # Test 2b: sequential fill with the configured value size
+  env $ARGS ./tools/benchmark_leveldb.sh fillseq
+
+  # Test 3: single-threaded overwrite
+  env $ARGS NUM_THREADS=1 DB_BENCH_NO_SYNC=1 ./tools/benchmark_leveldb.sh overwrite
+
+else
+  echo Restoring from backup
+
+  rm -rf $db_dir
+
+  if [ ! -d ${db_dir}.bak ]; then
+    echo Database backup does not exist at ${db_dir}.bak
+    exit -1
+  fi
+
+  echo Restore database from ${db_dir}.bak
+  cp -p -r ${db_dir}.bak $db_dir
+fi
+
+if [[ $save_setup != 0 ]]; then
+  echo Save database to ${db_dir}.bak
+  cp -p -r $db_dir ${db_dir}.bak
+fi
+
+###### Read-only tests
+
+for num_thr in "${nthreads[@]}" ; do
+  # Test 4: random read
+  env $ARGS NUM_THREADS=$num_thr ./tools/benchmark_leveldb.sh readrandom
+
+done
+
+###### Non read-only tests
+
+for num_thr in "${nthreads[@]}" ; do
+  # Test 7: overwrite with sync=0
+  env $ARGS NUM_THREADS=$num_thr DB_BENCH_NO_SYNC=1 \
+    ./tools/benchmark_leveldb.sh overwrite
+
+  # Test 8: overwrite with sync=1
+  # Not run for now because LevelDB db_bench doesn't have an option to limit the
+  # test run to X seconds and doing sync-per-commit for --num can take too long.
+  # env $ARGS NUM_THREADS=$num_thr ./tools/benchmark_leveldb.sh overwrite
+
+  # Test 11: random read while writing
+  env $ARGS NUM_THREADS=$num_thr WRITES_PER_SECOND=$wps \
+    ./tools/benchmark_leveldb.sh readwhilewriting
+
+done
+
+echo bulkload > $output_dir/report2.txt
+head -1 $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+grep bulkload $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+echo fillseq >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+head -1 $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+grep fillseq $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+echo overwrite sync=0 >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+head -1 $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+grep overwrite $output_dir/report.txt | grep \.s0  >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+echo overwrite sync=1 >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+head -1 $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+grep overwrite $output_dir/report.txt | grep \.s1  >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+echo readrandom >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+head -1 $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+grep readrandom $output_dir/report.txt  >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+echo readwhile >> $output_dir/report2.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+head -1 $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+grep readwhilewriting $output_dir/report.txt >> $output_dir/report2.txt
+
+cat $output_dir/report2.txt