Re: a few questions.. huge load testing job

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

Hi Aaron,

On Dec 7, 2007 7:32 AM, aaron smith <bei...@gm...> wrote:
> -This should work on a mac right? (intel mac)

It works on linux. If you have managed to run linux on some MAC HW
- you can try.

> -Are there any other documentation/examples of using curl-loader?

Examples of the batches (testing plans) are inside the tarball in
conf-examples directory. The FAQs are here:
http://curl-loader.sourceforge.net/doc/faq.html
even more docs are here:
http://curl-loader.sourceforge.net

> The request from the flash player comes over as a POST, but i'm not sure if
> the AMF comes over in a form variable? Usually in a remoting gateway I can
> get the AMF from the request.raw_body. How does that correlate to a request?

Y can try to sniff the traffic, using wireshark (ethereal) and know, what are
the HTTP request/responses.

> The workflow that I see with curl loader is the batch file, changing the
> header to supply the content-type of application/x-amf, and the
> content-length. Then associating the AMF from a file with the content/body
> of the request.. The site is expected to be getting millions of hits daily
> possibly weekly. In any case huge loads.

There are two ways of doing POST-ing:
a) a regular one;
b) a multiform POST-ing.

Try to capture the traffic, remove all private info and send here to see,
what happens.

> Has anything like this been accomplished with curl-loader?

Let's say 10 mln of hits per day are only about 400 000 per hour, which
means only 7000 heats/minute. I do not see any problem for curl-loader f
rom the point of number of request.
Your scenario, however, may require high bandwidth, high CPU,
but a dual core Core2 Intel CPU with some 2G of memory should manage it.

The question is about your application part.

> Thanks much for any help!
> -Aaron

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