On Jul 18, 2016 1:03 AM, "Olivier Berthonneau" < [email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > My guess is I will have to code a bot to connect to multiple sessions at the same time. As I want the session to produce change on the screen to generate load I was thinking of opening my session with a full screen video playing a typical usage of a Windows session. > > Has anyone any thoughts about this before I jump in ? >
Hi Olivier, I would recommend against this approach. Doing this will nullify the remote desktop features of RDP (like bitmap caching and copying rectangles between surfaces). The result may look visually similar, but the information that remote desktop servers hook into for efficient operation will be gone. The server will be forced to do nothing but frequent and large brute-force image comparisons, followed by encoding those large areas. This will be orders of magnitude more intense than what would happen compared to typical operations with respect to processing. If you want the benchmark to be representative, you will need to script the inputs of the user such that the applications running on the remote desktop server are actually opened, used in a way typical of a user, etc. I don't think there are any shortcuts around that which wouldn't also defeat the benchmark. Thanks, - Mike
