Re: [curl-loader-devel] Output understanding

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

On 5/5/07, Aleksandar Lazic <al-...@no...> wrote:
> A session, as in httperf defined and many $PEOPLE means, is the whole
> requests which are needed to get the full webpage loaded:
> This means when you plan to have 100 concurrent Users and you site
> have. lets say 4 components, then the server must anwer 400 requests,
> you got my point?

OK, HTTP session or HTTP business transaction.

If this is a single url, one curl-loader client is mapped 1:1 to libcurl handle.
Libcurl handle, if my understanding is correct, has up to 5 sockets/connections.

Fetching a single url may lead to multiple requests, GETs, POSTs, redirections,
more GETs and POSTs. They are all reflected in statistics per client.

Talking about 3-5 different independent urls (without redirections), one
can specify all them in a batch file configuration file (test plan)
and they all will
be fetched. We call it cycle of fetching. There is some statistics in
clients dump
*.ctx file with numbers of cycles, etc. Sure, it may be improved/enhanced.

Which counters you think may be of interest here?

-- 
Sincerely,
Robert Iakobashvili,
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