I've just uploaded a new build of swingbench 2.3. It includes a number of commonly requested features. These include

• The ability to collect database stats (from v$sesstat) to provide an overview of the resources used in a benchmark run. Let me know what other stats you'd like collected


• Time on the x-axis of the Transaction and CPU overview charts

To enable database stats collection you'll need to edit the config file and include the following new elements (in red)

<ConnectionInformation>
      <UserName>soe</UserName>
      <Password>soe</Password>
      <ConnectString>//dgiles-uk:1521/DOM102</ConnectString>
      <DriverType>thin</DriverType>
      <NumberOfUsers>15</NumberOfUsers>
      <LogonDelay>0</LogonDelay>
      <LogOutPostTransaction>false</LogOutPostTransaction>
      <SystemUserName>system</SystemUserName>
      <SystemPassword>manager</SystemPassword>
</ConnectionInformation>

The results will be included in the output as xml.

I've encountered a weird bug... not sure if its my fault or the the JVMs. Basically when running the latest version of datagenerator on a multi CPU Itanium box I get this exception thrown after a (seemingly random) period of time. This only happens on an Itanium machine. The other variable here is that because its Itanium I have to use the JRockit 1.5 JVM. The code seems to work fine on every other multi CPU environment I've tried... Has anyone else had this problem?

I've released a new build of swingbench... nothing earth shattering but I have included some new functiionality

• clusteroverview has new command line options


• clusteroverview can now be run automatically and for a specified period of time


• Clear button on events panel in swingbench


• Events in panels now appear in time descending order

There's a bunch of other stuff too...