Re: URL limit and URL grouping

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

Hi KM,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:40 AM, kewlemer <kew...@gm...> wrote:
> First off many thanks to all the contributers to curl-loader - it
> really is a cool tool.

Thanks. Please, note, that you need to fill PROBLEM-REPORTING-FORM
for any questions

> In
> the conf-examples directory and the mail threads I've noticed that the
> URL section usually has a handful of URLs. For my testing I have a
> .txt file with close to 1000 URLs which I would like to integrate in
> the .conf file. I have two questions in this regard -
>
> 1. Whats the easiest way to integrate all the URLs  with related
> fields like  REQUEST_TYPE? Can I simple throw in my 1000 URLs and have
> a common set of other URL parameters?

No. Follow the guidelines in due course

>This thread suggests that
> grouping like this may be incorrect but its not clear-
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=7e63f56c0807012108p311b0c1cwfd5faa53d7516eed%40mail.gmail.com
> Can anyone please confirm if such grouping is valid?

Confirming that such grouping is not valid.
Create some script to handle writing of configuration.
Somebody did similar cases, but not released the scripts here:
http://barelyenough.org/blog/2008/03/load-testing-and-virtualization-tools/

> 2. Is there a limit on the number of URLs that can be used?

Number of URLs is not limited.

The issue to care is that the screen output may be screwed since you
most probably do not have enough space for 1000 URLs

If you'll have any such issues. you may comment out the code, that
prints URLs statistics to your screen.
The code is in file statistics.c , function
dump_snapshot_interval_and_advance_total_statistics(),
comment out the call to print_operational_statistics ()

/*
print_operational_statistics (&bctx->op_delta,
                                  &bctx->op_total,
                                  bctx->url_ctx_array);
*/


Truly,
Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D.
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