[Grinder-use] Control and measure Load (Requests/second) from tests

[Trilok K. <tri...@gm...>]

I am looking at ways to control and measure the load generated by my Test
suite (in terms of requests per second) using Grinder.

To achieve this, I am creating a mechanism where
1] A Throttle class populates a thread-safe queue (from Jython Queue module)
at a steady desired rate.
2] Test worker threads block to get a token from the queue, and proceed only
on getting a token.

The same approach can be extended to create a flexible load ramp-up
functionality.

Let me know if you have a similar stable implementation or there's an easier
approach that has worked for you.

Best,
Trilok.