On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:36:11PM -0700, Ian Holsman wrote: > BTW can flood simulate a steady # of requests being attempted per > second? or does it just fire up N threads/processes and whack away. > ( check out http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/Web-measurement/ for more > info)
Yeah, I read that paper last night and I believe flood can simulate the S-Client under the following syntax: <usefarmer count="10000" startdelay="1" startcount="2">Joe</usefarmer> Flood will start two threads every second until there are 10000 active. I suppose we could make it open-ended, but that complicates things. We could also make the resolution of the XML more precise (i.e. .5 seconds), but Aaron and I disagreed on how to do this. =) In order to do the S-Client as described, you must have two processes with a domain socket and use event-based socket operations. I don't feel that is very portable or scalable. However, their idea of continuing to ramp up the requests regardless of the server's response time does make sense. -- justin
