You can also stretch out your testing interval by limiting the concurrency
in bbtest-net. See the man page for the exact syntax.
Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Paper <user-ad0dc750b2b6@xymon.invalid> wrote:
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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Dave Paper
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