Greetings hobbit gurus [0],
While I am still trying to search my way to an answer via the archives of this list and google, I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
I've got a bb-hosts file with 8 server process instances getting tested. Each instance gets tested with 3 HTTP requests (2 GET, 1 POST). All 8 server processes live on the same physical OS instance. This results in 24 HTTP requests getting sent from hobbit within 1/100th of a second. This causes the load on the host to spike, and generates contention w/in each server to satisfy the requests. This same setup is repeated for hundreds of hosts and hundreds of processes.
Is there a way to tell hobbit to take all of the entries in bb-hosts and test them in a random order w/in the 1 minute testing interval? This would end up staggering the arrival of each HTTP test somewhat and lessen contention within each HTTP server and on each host.
Thanks,
-dave
[0] Of which I am not, but ... maybe one day.
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