diff --git a/db/gemfire/src/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/ConfigHelper.java b/db/gemfire/src/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/ConfigHelper.java
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-package com.yahoo.ycsb.db;
-
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-
-import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.util.ObjectSizer;
-import com.yahoo.ycsb.workloads.CoreWorkload;
-
-/**
- * Utility to help figure out the number of entries to be
- * inserted to fill the heap to a certain percentage. The
- * output provided does <i>not</i> consider redundant copies.
- * 
- * @author Swapnil Bawaskar (sbawaska at vmware)
- *
- */
-public class ConfigHelper {
-
-  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
-    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
-    System.out.print("Enter the heap size for GemFire in GB:");
-    String input = null;
-    input = br.readLine();
-    long bytes = convertToBytes(input);
-    
-    System.out.print("Enter % of heap to be filled: (default:90):");
-    input = br.readLine();
-    int percent = 90;
-    if (!input.equals("")) {
-      percent = Integer.parseInt(input.trim());
-    }
-    
-    long bytesToFill = (bytes*percent)/100;
-    
-    System.out.println("Bytes available:"+bytes);
-    System.out.println("Bytes to fill  :"+bytesToFill);
-    
-    System.out.print("Enter field count for value: (default:"+CoreWorkload.FIELD_COUNT_PROPERTY_DEFAULT+"):");
-    input = br.readLine();
-    int fieldCount = 0;
-    if (input.equals("")) {
-      fieldCount = Integer.parseInt(CoreWorkload.FIELD_COUNT_PROPERTY_DEFAULT);
-    } else {
-      fieldCount = Integer.parseInt(input.trim());
-    }
-    
-    System.out.print("Enter field length in bytes: (default:"+CoreWorkload.FIELD_LENGTH_PROPERTY_DEFAULT+"):");
-    input = br.readLine();
-    int fieldLength = 0;
-    if (input.equals("")) {
-      fieldLength = Integer.parseInt(CoreWorkload.FIELD_LENGTH_PROPERTY_DEFAULT);
-    } else {
-      fieldLength = Integer.parseInt(input.trim());
-    }
-    
-    ObjectSizer s = ObjectSizer.DEFAULT;
-    String keyPrefix = "user";
-    String valPrefix = "field";
-    int sizeOfInt = 4;
-    int keySize = s.sizeof(keyPrefix) + sizeOfInt;
-    int valSize = (s.sizeof(valPrefix) + sizeOfInt + fieldLength) * fieldCount;
-    long entrySize = keySize + valSize;
-    System.out.println("Entry size in bytes:"+entrySize+"\n");
-    
-    System.out.println("recordcount="+(bytesToFill/entrySize));
-  }
-
-  private static long convertToBytes(String input) {
-    input = input.trim();
-    String b = null;
-    long bytes = 0;
-    if (input.contains("g") || input.contains("G")) {
-      b = input.substring(0, input.length()-1);
-    } else {
-      b = input;
-    }
-    long g = Long.parseLong(b);
-    bytes = g * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
-    return bytes;
-  }
-}