System Call Traces
System-Call I/O Traces typically reflect operating system calls to the file system.
Some system-call traces can also be found in the Parallel Traces section.
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| Trace Name | Details | Details | Related Tools | Year Recorded | Timespan | Record Count | File Size | Actions |
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| FIU Filesystem SysCall Traces | System-call traces from "Non-blocking Writes to Files" in the Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February, 2015. The six main traces are all one day of traces collected on 09/16/2014. All the systems were running Linux using the ext4 and zfs file systems. The two replayed traces are two minute traces collected while replaying the original Mobibench traces. The replay was done on a Linux system using an ext4 file system. | System-call traces taken on six machines in 2014. Two additional traces from replaying the original Mobibench traces. | 2014 | 7 days | 453 Million | 3.85 GB |
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WARNING: These traces are over 10 years old! They should not be used for modern research!
The following traces are free to download under the terms of the
SNIA Trace Data Files Download License.
Please note that cookies must be enabled within your browser in order to
download traces.
For questions about downloading using a shell script,
see Using Shell Scripts,
and for more information about downloading using a Windows
batch script, see
Using Batch Scripts.
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| MobiGen Traces | 2 minute I/O traces generated using the Mobigen tool. Information about the tool is described in the README file. These traces are related to the paper I/O Stack Optimization for Smartphones by Sooman Jeong, Kisung Lee, Seongjin Lee, Seoungbum Son, Samsung Electronics, and Youjip Won. | 2 minute I/O traces collected on a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. | 2013 | 5 minutes | 97.8 Thousand | 19.3 MB |
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| iBench Traces | Traces collected for research as part of I/O Behavior Research at University of Wisconsin. | iBench Traces collected at the University of Wisconsin. | This trace has no related tools yet. | 2011 | 7 days | 9.01 Million | 115 MB |
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| TraceFS Sample Traces |
Sample traces of three benchmark runs collected with the TraceFS tracing system. Additional information about TraceFS can be found at the following URL: http://www.filesystems.org/project-tracefs.html |
Sample traces collected with the TraceFS system. | This traces are stored in a binary format. The code for opening them can be found at http://www.filesystems.org/project-tracefs.html. | 2007 | 13 days | 1 Million | 57.7 MB |
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| LASR Traces (ASCII) |
I/O traces taken at the system-call level in 2000 and 2001 as part of a security research project. The traces cover thirteen computers used for software development by CS researchers. The longest trace (machine02) runs from June 2000 to August 2001. The traces are further described in a README file. |
System-call I/O traces of thirteen machines taken in 2000 and 2001. | The traces have been converted to ASCII using the binary tool to read the Seer format. | 2000 - 2001 | over 1 year | 566 Million | 5.49 GB |
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| LASR Traces (Binary) |
I/O traces taken at the system-call level in 2000 and 2001 as part of a security research project. The traces cover thirteen computers used for software development by CS researchers. The longest trace (machine02) runs from June 2000 to August 2001. The traces are further described in a README file. |
System-call I/O traces of thirteen machines taken in 2000 and 2001. | The traces can be read using the Seer reading tool. | 2000 - 2001 | over 1 year | 566 Million | 3.17 GB |
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| HP FSTraces | Five system call traces taken in 2000 | Five system call traces taken in 2000 | 2000 | 10 days | 9.9 GB |
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| Seer Traces (ASCII) |
I/O traces taken at the system-call level, excluding reads and writes but including opens, closes and all other I/O calls, and including process-related calls such as fork and exec. The traces cover nine laptop computers used for software development by CS researchers, some with very heavy activity. The longest trace (norgay) extends from April 2, 1996, to January 28, 1997; the shortest (crockett) is October 11 to November 19, 1996. All traces contain gaps representing times when the machines were rebooted or the trace software failed. Activity by the superuser is generally omitted. Additional information about these traces can be found here. |
ASCII format of Seer Traces. System-call traces (excluding read/write) of nine laptops, taken in 1996 and 1997. | These traces are already in readable (ASCII) format. | 1996 - 1997 | about 1 year | 72 Million | 792 MB |
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| Seer Traces (Binary) |
I/O traces taken at the system-call level, excluding reads and writes but including opens, closes and all other I/O calls, and including process-related calls such as fork and exec. The traces cover nine laptop computers used for software development by CS researchers, some with very heavy activity. The longest trace (norgay) extends from April 2, 1996, to January 28, 1997; the shortest (crockett) is October 11 to November 19, 1996. All traces contain gaps representing times when the machines were rebooted or the trace software failed. Activity by the superuser is generally omitted. Additional information about these traces can be found here. |
System-call traces (excluding read/write) of nine laptops, taken in 1996 and 1997. | A tool to read these traces is here. | 1996 - 1997 | about 1 year | 72 Million | 553 MB |
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| CMU DFS Traces (ASCII) | This is a set of system-call traces collected for the Carnegie Mellon Online Coda Project. The traces cover 33 hosts running Mach. Several different workloads are represented, including file server, workstation, and time-sharing systems. | System-call traces from the CMU Coda project, 1991-93. | The traces have been converted to ASCII using the CMU-DFStrace Reading Tools | 1991 - 1993 | almost 3 years | 1.01 Billion | 13.7 GB |
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| CMU DFS Traces (Binary) | This is a set of system-call traces collected for the Carnegie Mellon Online Coda Project. The traces cover 33 hosts running Mach. several different workloads are represented, including file server, workstation, and time-sharing systems. | System-call traces from the CMU Coda project, 1991-93. | These traces are in a binary format. Tools for processing the traces can be found here | 1991 - 1993 | almost 3 years | 1 Billion | 22.6 GB |
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