Re: check expression proposal.

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

On 7/5/07, Vlad W. <wvl...@gm...> wrote:
> Mercury LoadRunner uses C interpreter as the script engine. LR does not
> provide desired performance (for single load generator machine) as well.
> However, performance bottleneck is not in scripting but in protocol handling
> (socket operations, HTTP analysis, infrastructure and OS impact, etc.).

Interesting.

> The problem of scripting (like LR etc.) vs. configuration file using
> (curl-loader batch) is rather architectural difficulty than performance, I
> think. LR runs each virtual client in separate thread, while the scripting
> engine instance exists for each client, whith its own context. Curl-loader
> runs a lot of virtual clients in single thread. Script running become be
> quite complicated in this case.

Agree.
IMHO: We have a new option to distribute the load among several threads
for better SMP/multi-core utilization.

> So, if high performance is the main target and curl-loader architecture is
> the final choice, the client configuration is seemed to be right solution.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Robert Iakobashvili,
coroberti %x40 gmail %x2e com
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