Hi, On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> I talked to Robert Arkeletian the other day (the guy who writes > fl_teachertool) and he said he had some scripts that can shutdown a > client and boot them via wake on lan. I told him if he had a chance he > should get those scripts to you so that you may try and incorporate them > into the stress test system. That'd be interesting alright. > If you don't hear from him you might want to contact him personally. I > know last time we talked you were still looking for a way to do this. There's no great rush. Right now, when I get time, I mostly want to get the user simulator correct. For now, it'll be just a couple of rudimentary tasks that can be done from the command line but I've played about a bit with dogtail and ldtp to do more complex things. To make things more realistic I need to figure out some idea of what consitutes "normal use". If someone's browsing the web, do they tend to take a new url on average every 30 seconds or more often (more cpu/bandwidth)? Do ordinary users tend to keep lots of tabs open (more memory usage) or stick to one or two? I guess the answer is probably that if you have 40 users you'll get a distribution of all of these. As you suggested it's possible that a big bunch of volunteers recording their actions into "recipes" might be the best way to get a feeling of real usage. Both ldtp and dogtail can record and replay users' actions like this. Sadly, the most important application, firefox, is a little behind in its AT-SPI support just now so until Firefox v3 we might need to use epiphany. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
