SMB2/SMB3 workloads for testing. (smbtorture?)

Christopher O Cowan Christopher.O.Cowan at ibm.com
Mon Jun 24 20:01:50 UTC 2019



In recent years, we've set the MIN Protocol to SMB2, in production, but I
had not been running that way in my lab.

Since, I have been using smbtorture and bench.nbench to simulate
workloads, things broke when I made the change to Min Protocol.
I'm getting "Failed to open connection -
NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE".  I'm thinking either I don't know the
magic combination of switches, or I'm going to have to change the code a
bit.    Fully expecting right now, that a different loadfile is needed, as
well.  (Unless I'm mistaken)

I found two conference presentations in with the SambaXP stuff, but not
sure that I fully grok things, yet.   My understanding is that nbench is
just replaying packets previously captured using one of the VFS modules.

I would appreciate any advice for generating a representative SMB2/SMB3
workload, hopefully smbtorture.

Regards,
Chris

PS: I'm also looking at dbench, as well, but I having a little trouble
compiling it on a RHEL7 desktop.   Wading through that, right now, as well.




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