[Loadsim-users] Some feedback about loadsim....

[Jon S. <jo...@ze...>]

Vince,

Hi, thanks for your work on loadsim.

Some comments:

    * it is not clear what the duration attribute in the use-sequence
element does
    * an example of the publish XML configuration would be useful
    * for some purposes, such as measuring response times as a function
of time, it would be good if the results.csv file contained timestamps

I had problems starting the LoadSim filter in Muffin. The only way it
would work was for me to add a new filter with the fully qualified class
name of the filter - the pre-configured LoadSim filter did nothing.

Also, when it did work, it generated a sequence.xml file with links like
the following:

    <link
id="Params.richmedia=yes&site=smh&adspace=468x60&cat=breaking&loc=top"
          host="http://campaigns.f2.com.au"

pathroot="/js.ng/Params.richmedia=yes&site=smh&adspace=468x60&cat=breaking&loc=top">

    </link>

The simulator wouldn't load this file because the XML is not
well-formed. In particular...the &'s  should be encoded as &amp;'s.
Manually editing the file to change occurrences of & to &amp; solved the
problem.

jon.