Re: Regarding the multi threading option in curl loader

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

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:12 AM, SAJAL BHATIA <s.b...@qu...> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Actually my question was can one thread of Curl Loader use more than one
> CPU? Like I am using a dual core processor machine and when I don'tspecify the option -t 2 (since dual core) and monitor the CPU utilization
> for different number of virtual client (1K, 2K, 5K etc), the CPU
> utilization does not goes beyond 100%. It reaches around 98% with some 20Kclients and after that the programs just crashes.
>

1. Monitor the memory usage;
2. Don't use a VM, but a real linux. Forget about Windows.


>  So I am assuming that given my specifications of the machine and my
> configuration file this is some sort of upper bound. But what I wanted to
> know is that if with these many clients (20K) its using almost one full
> CPU (~ 98%) than by increasing the number of clients any further shouldn't
> it use the other available CPU ?
>

No.