Re: Regarding the command line option for number of threads

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

Hi Sajal,

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:53 AM, SAJAL BHATIA <s.b...@qu...> wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> I have a questions regrading the command line option -t <number of
> threads>. I am using a virtual machine with 4 virtual CPUs
>

We never tried it on VMs.
Obviously, it will be less powerful than on a real linux.


> , so if I mention -t 4 in the command line while executing the curl loader
> and I have mentioned 20K clients (within a specified address range) in my
> configuration file, then will each of these 4 threads have 20K clients or
> will it be 20K clients distributed between 4 threads (or 5K per thread).
> If so (later), will the distribution be like first 5K to first thread and
> next 5K to second and so forth?
>

I will be 5K users at each thread.
I do not believe that a VM could work with 20K users.

Y will also need a lot of memory. Y will also need several web-servers
against it.

Please, read the FAQ below:
http://curl-loader.sourceforge.net/high-load-hw/index.html




>
> Thanks
>
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> Sajal Bhatia
> Research Masters Student
> QUT, Brisbane
> AUSTRALIA
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