Re: Best way to mimic the load we get normally.

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

Hi Gregory,

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Greg Patmore <gr...@sl...> wrote:

>
> *The urls are all configured like so:*
>
> *URL=http://mydomain.com/firstpage.html*
>
> *URL_SHORT_NAME="firstpage"*
>
> *REQUEST_TYPE=GET*
>
> *TIMER_URL_COMPLETION=0*
>
> *TIMER_AFTER_URL_SLEEP=0-5000*
>
> *… ect …*
>
> *And the command I’m running the test with is:*
>
> *./curl-loader -f ./conf-examples/1k-clients.conf -v -u -t 2*
>
> * *
>
> *So when I run the test sometimes it seems that it’s sending the number of
> client requests to each url at the same time, which for 8 URL entries would
> equate to around 8000 requests per second once it hits the max.  What I’m
> trying to do is show a load of 1000 user’s on the site at the same time,
> clicking to a new page every few seconds.  Am I doing it wrong?*
>

Could you clarify a bit more, what do you have and what do you wish?
Thanks!

If you wish to have some picks in your load, you may place not a random, but
some
rigid time in *TIMER_AFTER_URL_SLEEP=

Ir you wish to increase an element of randomness in clicking pages,
look at FETCH_PROBABILITY.
*

> **
>
> *Also, is it more realistic if I use the –r switch?*
>
No

> **
>
> *Gregory Patmore*
>

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