Hi,
I'm having an issue with running VMMark 2.1. Each time I launch the STAX job, ds2webdriver.exe stops working, but if I run the command line "ds2webdriver.exe --target=DS2WEBA0" separately in a cmd window, it works fine. Looks likes an issue with STAF and STAX, so I reinstalled both and reconfigured STAF.cfg according to the benchmarking guide, but it still doesn't work.
I 've gone through all the threads I can find about this topic (e.g fixing /etc/hosts file), but got no luck in fixing this problem.
PLEASE HELP! Any suggestion is recommended. Thanks.
STAF version: 3.4.10
STAX version: 3.4.5
Log from DS2WEBA0
<!--
* DVD Store Common Include PHP Page - dscommon.inc
*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Dell, Inc. <dave_jaffe@dell.com> and <todd_muirhead@dell.com>
*
* Used by DVD Store php pages
*
* Last Updated 5/13/05
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
-->
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>DVD Store Login Page</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE="Arial" COLOR="#0000FF">
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>DVD Store</H1>
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'DS2-DB' (4)
Thread 5: Error in Login for User user23891095, thread exiting
Thread 9: Login: Username/password incorrect; str_acc length: 1116 str_acc:
<!--
* DVD Store Common Include PHP Page - dscommon.inc
*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Dell, Inc. <dave_jaffe@dell.com> and <todd_muirhead@dell.com>
*
* Used by DVD Store php pages
*
* Last Updated 5/13/05
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
-->
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>DVD Store Login Page</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE="Arial" COLOR="#0000FF">
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>DVD Store</H1>
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'DS2-DB' (4)
Thread 9: Error in Login for User user6002984, thread exiting
et= 70.0 n_overall=119 opm=101 rt_tot_lastn_max_msec=55469 rt_tot_avg_msec=1830 rt_tot_sampled=-2147483648 rollbacks: n=2 %= 1.7
threads[5].ThreadState= Stopped
threads[9].ThreadState= Stopped
Error in parsing neworderid: Input string was not in a correct format.; ind_b= 14 ind_e= 81 str_acc[]= Store Common Include PHP Page - dscommon.inc
*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Dell, Inc.
Thread 0: Error in Purchase, thread exiting
et= 80.0 n_overall=119 opm=89 rt_tot_lastn_max_msec=55469 rt_tot_avg_msec=1830 rt_tot_sampled=-2147483648 rollbacks: n=2 %= 1.7
threads[0].ThreadState= Stopped
threads[5].ThreadState= Stopped
threads[9].ThreadState= Stopped
Thread 3: error in parsing response from browse request
Thread 3: Error in Browse by title, thread exiting
Yes, all the vmmark VMs are on the same vswitch. And by running ifconfig on both DS2DB0 and DS2WebA0, I didn't see any errors or dropped or overruns.
Please do remember that the sql connection error only happens when ds2webdriver.exe is run with more than 7 threads, but doesn't get any error when I run with less than 7 threads against one web server.
Can you send an email to vmmark-info@vmware.com
Could I know what's that email for? Is it that somebody getting the email will help me to resolve it? Or it's only for reporting the issue? Thanks.
Big thanks to all the help jamesz08 gave. This issue is finally resolved.
From jamesz08:
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comment out the nameserver line in resolv.conf on your ds2db vm. as far as I can tell Mysql is trying to do a reverse lookup of the webvm, this causes connection timeouts at higher loads.