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+#!/bin/bash
+SPARK_DIR=/home/user1/spark-2.0.1-bin-hadoop2.7
+WORK_DIR=/home/user1/tpcds-setup
+EXPECTED_RUNTIME=60sec
+
+echo "###### show slave file: ----------------------------------------------"
+cat $SPARK_DIR/conf/slaves
+
+
+echo "###### show jvm processes ..."
+/home/user1/hadoop-cluster-utils/utils/checkall.sh
+
+echo "###### show SMT mode ..."
+for i in {1..5}; do
+echo "----- slavehost${i}: ------------------------------------------------------"
+ssh root@slavehost${i}lab "ppc64_cpu --smt"
+done;
+
+
+echo "###### show nmon process ..."
+for i in {1..5}; do
+echo "----- slavehost${i}: ------------------------------------------------------"
+ssh root@slavehost${i}lab  "ps aux | grep nmon"
+done;
+
+echo "###### show shell processes ..."
+for i in {1..5}; do
+echo "----- slavehost${i}: ------------------------------------------------------"
+ssh root@slavehost${i}lab   "ps aux | grep '\.sh'"
+done;
+
+########################################
+#### workload baseline test ############
+########################################
+
+#cd $WORK_DIR
+#echo "run sanity test? [ctrl-c to exit]"
+#read varAnswer
+#### set the 1+3 setting
+#echo "expected runtime: $EXPECTED_RUNTIME"
+#nohup  ./home/user1/tpcds-setup/run_single_spark.sh q19, q42,q43,q52,q55,q63, q68, q73 
+#nohup  /home/user1/tpcds-setup/run_single_spark.sh q73 1 40 10 63 tpcds_1tb
+#nohup  ./201-runFull-smt4-snappy.sh q19x10 &