That's the easy way. Let me know of any problems you find. Thanks,
Guy On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:05 +0100, Rainer Jung wrote: > Skye Poier Nott schrieb: > > 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... ? > > At the moment it exists as an attachment to older mails of Guy to the > same list. See e.g. his mail on February 22: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200802.mbox/raw/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]/2 > > Regards, > > Rainer > > > > 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
