Well, no, because it's been submitted but not approved. But you could ask that it be approved! There needs to be a discussion about it, there is one tradeoff in the algorithm that needs to be understood.
Committer-folk: see how popular this would be? Guy On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:04 -0700, Skye Poier Nott wrote: > Even better - very cool patch!! Like many people, I'm interested > primarily in simulating real world traffic and round_robin doesn't > really cut it. > > So is it in SVN or... ? > > Skye > > > > On 17-Mar-08, at 10:54 AM, Guy Ferraiolo wrote: > > > It works a bit differently because it does text substitution. > > That's a > > more general case and is much more common for our needs. Here's how > > it > > would work in your case: > > > > 1. use a requesttemplate > > 2. the URL would be http://w${RANVAR}.example.com/file.html > > RANVAR is the substitution variable, you can pick your > > variable names and have more than one in a URL > > 3. create a substitution file containing lines with the text > > you want substituted as (example file name mysubstfile): > > 0000\n > > 0001\n > > ... > > 9999\n > > 4. Have a config file with a subst_list entry like this > > > > <subst_list> > > <subst_entry> > > <subst_var>RANVAR</subst_var> > > <subst_file>/path-to/mysubstfile</subst_file> > > <subst_entry> > > <subst_list> > > > > > > The win is that the subst file can contain lots of things beyond > > random > > numbers. It's very easy to create a subst file from an access log and > > get very good agreement with your actual traffic. So URLs like > > http://example.com/?q=${QUERYFROMREALTRAFFIC} work fine. You can do > > port numbers too. > > > > Very large subst files work fine. > > > > Guy > > > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:43 -0700, Skye Poier Nott wrote: > >> Interesting.. > >> > >> I have 10,000 host aliases setup up from w0000.example.com to > >> w9999.example.com so your patch would let me do something like > >> http:// > >> w{random number from 0000-9999}.example.com/file.html in the urllist? > >> Well that would sure cut down on the size of the flood config xml. > >> > >> Hopefully your patch can do zero padding of random numbers! What's > >> the url for the patch file? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Skye > >> > >> > >> On 17-Mar-08, at 10:37 AM, Guy Ferraiolo wrote: > >> > >>> Actually, I think my current patch which does randomization on > >>> URLs in > >>> round_robin profiles provides a bit more. > >>> > >>> Any news on the patch, folks? > >>> > >>> Guy > >>> > >>> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:35 -0700, Skye Poier Nott wrote: > >>>> It looks like (contrary to the docs) the only available > >>>> <profiletype> > >>>> for flood is round_robin. > >>>> > >>>> Does anyone have a patch to support <profiletype>random</ > >>>> profiletype>? > >>>> > >>>> If not, and I write one, would you be interested in the patch? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Skye > >>>> > >>>> > >>> -- > >>> Guy Ferraiolo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> Performance Measurement & Analysis http://CNET.com > >>> CNET tel: 1.908.541.3739 > >>> 1200 Route 22 East fax: 1.908.575.7474 > >>> Bridgewater, NJ 08807 cel: 1.732.618.0250 > >> > > -- > > Guy Ferraiolo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Performance Measurement & Analysis http://CNET.com > > CNET tel: 1.908.541.3739 > > 1200 Route 22 East fax: 1.908.575.7474 > > Bridgewater, NJ 08807 cel: 1.732.618.0250 > -- Guy Ferraiolo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Performance Measurement & Analysis http://CNET.com CNET tel: 1.908.541.3739 1200 Route 22 East fax: 1.908.575.7474 Bridgewater, NJ 08807 cel: 1.732.618.0250
