On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Tommi Virtanen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:49:28PM -0800, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> > To keep things from crossing boundaries, we label each group of hosts
> > appropriate for one of these tests with a label specific to that purpose.
> >  (foo_loadtest_rack1, foo_loadtest_rack2, etc).  This can be an atomic
> group
> > label but use of atomic groups for this is often overkill unless you need
> to
> > deal with frequently losing one or two machines and still being able to
> run
> > the test with "at least N from this group" rather than "exactly these N."
> ...
> > % atest job create -b foo_loadtest_rack1 -s -t foo_loadtest
> > ...
> >
> > schedules a job to run on foo_loadtest_rack1.  etc..
>
> I don't see the jump in logic from that to coordinating both servers
> and clients in one test, or controlling that I need 7 machines from
> server pool and 20 from client pool. Can you elaborate?
>

Its not an ideal setup.  We've been reserving server+client pools of
machines together as one unit with no way of specifying different pairings
of server and client sets.  not very efficient.

-gps
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