How was the SPECsfs2008 workload determined?
The SPECsfs2008 NFS and CIFS workloads are based primarily on data collected from tens of thousands of fileservers from member companies, deployed by customers in a variety of file-serving application environments. The bulk of the data was collected by mining databases that hold the data received via automatic reporting systems embedded in products from member companies. To provide further information, NFS/CIFS packet trace data was collected from a number of customer and member company internal systems. The resulting workload in SPECsfs2008 more accurately represents a composite of the workloads seen in current fileserving environments.
