Re: Query random paths?

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

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Jan Wielemaker <J.W...@cs...>wrote:

> On Monday 27 July 2009 07:38:12 am Robert Iakobashvili wrote:
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Jan Wielemaker
> <J.W...@cs...>wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just trying my first steps into curl-loader :-)  I looked through the
> FAQ
> > > and config files, but I couldn't find an answer on how to query a *lot*
> > > of random paths using a pool of -lets say- 20 clients.
> > >
> > > I see we have FORM_RECORDS_RANDOM, which seems to do the trick for
> > > form-data. I am trying to debug server crashes, where I know it is
> > > related to concurrency, but otherwise I have little clue on whether or
> > > not it is related to the actual query paths.
> > >
> > > Just to bash the server, I collected a list of 6,000 paths that have
> > > been queried on the server recently and then I use the config below,
> but
> > > curl-loader only seems to use the first 20 paths of the file :-(
> > >
> > > Did I overlook something trivial?
> > >
> > >        Cheers --- Jan
> > >
> > > ================================================================
> > > BATCH_NAME= bulk
> > > CLIENTS_NUM_MAX=20
> > > CLIENTS_NUM_START=20
> > > CLIENTS_RAMPUP_INC=0
> > > INTERFACE=eth0
> > > NETMASK=16
> > > IP_ADDR_MIN= 192.168.1.1
> > > IP_ADDR_MAX= 192.168.1.200
> > > IP_SHARED_NUM=200
> > > CYCLES_NUM= -1
> > > URLS_NUM= 1
> > >
> > > URL_TEMPLATE=http://localhost:3040%s
> > > URL_TOKEN_FILE=paths
> > > URL_SHORT_NAME="local-server"
> > > REQUEST_TYPE=GET
> > > TIMER_URL_COMPLETION = 5000
> > > TIMER_AFTER_URL_SLEEP = 0
> > > ================================================================
> >
> > It is a rather recent feature developed by Gary and it will be great if
> > Gary will comment.
>
>
> I must admit that I still don't really get the meaning of the CIENTS_*
> settings.  Is the number of clients expressed by this formula (t is
> time in seconds).
>
>        max(CLIENTS_NUM_MAX, CLIENTS_NUM_START+t*CLIENTS_RAMPUP_INC)
>

current clients num = CLIENTS_NUM_START+t*CLIENTS_RAMPUP_INC
till it comes the the CLIENTS_NUM_MAX

-- 
Truly,
Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D.
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