Re: no room in free client client list

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

Gentlemen,

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Val Shkolnikov <va...@nv...> wrote:

>  Vincent,
>
> So the message means that your server cannot keep up with this rate (800
> req/sec).  To be more precise, you specified 8192 clients with the request
> rate of 800/sec.   When the request rate is fixed, the curl-loader generates
> requests regardless of whether the server responds in time or not.  So if
> the server does not keep up, it does not respond in time to free a client
> for the new request.  The curl-loader uses another client to send a request
> at the given rate.  Eventually it runs out of clients and this is what you
> see:  all the clients are tied up waiting for the server to respond.  The
> message you see warns you that the request rate you want is not being
> sustained.
>
> You have two options to fix the situation.  The most obvious is to lower
> the request rate: your server does not keep up.  This is a load test after
> all :-).  The other approach is drop the REQ_RATE tag.  The curl loader then
> will wait for the server to respond before sending the next request, the
> server will pace the exchange.  Depending on what you want to model, choose
> the scenario.
>
> /Val
>


Val, excellent clarification.
Thank you very much!

Vincent, any chance you can release your great script under GPL-2?
Thank you in advance.


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