first time user - please help

[Toz Ed <toz...@ya...>]

I will really appreciate any feedback on the following questions:

1- how do the threads (i.e.: number of clients specified in the conf=testplan) work?.  I know they all get created (ramp up time aside) as part of launching the application - do they block? 

2- In scenarios where more than one thread is used is there a configuration setting to assign a unique set of URLS to a thread and have only that thread service them in some controlled fashion.  Ex:  I have a curloader configuration simulating 500 clients and I have 1 millions of unique URLS - I want to split equally the number of URLs across the threads and have them be played only once - is that possible using the curl-loader tool.

3- Can the cycle URL option be used to help with this task -

Thank you.
Zen