On 3/27/07, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--On Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:05 PM -0400 Matt Hogstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't used SLAMD. I have a C based load generator that is > proprietary. If it scales that would be awesome. Is it a C based load generator that can distribute across clients, similar to slamd? Or is it more like directoryMark? I'm curious, because the problem we've run into in benchmarking OpenLDAP with slamd, is that slamd simply can't keep up when one has a highly tuned performant server. :/
Java based load generators are just fine. I guess this is a tactic to toot the OpenLDAP (C) horn and bash Java while doing it: subtle but apparent. Even Java clients are not good enough I guess :/. The whole point to load generators is to increase the number of them as needed to blast the server with as much load to saturate it. If one load injector is not sufficient then increase the number. SLAMD does the job nicely. There's been some interesting in writing (or finding) an alternate LDAP
testing engine that is C based. Unfortunately, one that is not proprietary is of course desired.
One of the advantages to SLAMD is it's simplicity and the fact that it is a platform. It's easy to write quick tests using Java and load them. If you want to write a C based platform that's just as easy to use to do the same thing then be my guest. However I don't think it's going to go that far. Alex
