Re: URL cycling with staggered URLs

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

Hi John,

On 6/24/07, Robert Iakobashvili <cor...@gm...> wrote:

> > QUESTION/ SUGGESTION/ PATCH:
> >
> > What I want
> >     If I have N URLs and many clients, I would like curl-loader to
> >     if (process % N) == 0 then start on URL 0
> >     if (process % N) == 1 then start on URL 1
> >     if (process % N) == 2 then start on URL 2
> >    (and then if I have more processes than URLs, wrap back to URL 0
> >    when I reach URL N-1)
> >
> > Why do I want this?
> > This means that if I have a large set of URLs (too big for server file cache),
> > I can force the server to work hard at loading files from disk and get
> > a more realisitic load for my server

> We have the two features in our RoadMap/TODO list:
> 2. An option to download a url not only once a cycle, but according to its
>    "Weight", probability.
> 11. Usage of random time intervals, e.g 100-200 (from 100 to 200 msec);

The options are inside the latest version 0.40.
See for the tags FETCH_PROBABILITY and FETCH_PROBABILITY_ONCE
for the first feature.

Random timers taken from an interval are another feature.

Best wishes.

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