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Stagering Test

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list James Wade · Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:41:04 -0500 ·
I was wondering if there was a way to stager

the Hobbit clients. I use a NFS mount with

/home/hobbit for the client on each system.

 
So, if I have my own test, they all kick-off about

the same time.

 
I'd prefer them to stager during the 5 minutes.

 
Has anyone else encountered this?

 
Thanks..James
list Stewart L · Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:49:08 -0400 ·
Which tests, exactly, are you needing staggered?  If it is an external test
(which you implied) then simply code the delay into your script.  divide the
number of hosts by 300 seconds and sleep for that many seconds between tests
or something.  (leaving time for the actual test in there as well...)

Stewart

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:41 PM, James Wade <user-659655b2ea05@xymon.invalid>
quoted from James Wade
wrote:
 I was wondering if there was a way to stager

the Hobbit clients. I use a NFS mount with

/home/hobbit for the client on each system.


So, if I have my own test, they all kick-off about

the same time.


I'd prefer them to stager during the 5 minutes.


Has anyone else encountered this?


Thanks….James

-- 

Stewart

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The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
list Mark Hinkle · Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:56:38 -0700 ·
I tend to do the - admittedly crude - type of thing that allows them
to drift a bit over time for stuff that is not a "rate":

clientlaunch.cfg
[bbdbgisstatus]
        ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
        CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/bbdbgisstatus.pl
        LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/bbdbgisstatus.log
        INTERVAL 301

[bbdblocks]
        ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
        CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/bbdblocks.pl
        LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/bbdblocks.log
        INTERVAL 299

Hope this helps.
list Iain Miller · Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:10:06 +0000 ·
could you start the client at different intervals on your systems -
say start 20% of them, wait one minute, start the next 20% so on and
so on?
quoted from James Wade

On 10/03/2008, James Wade <user-659655b2ea05@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I was wondering if there was a way to stager

the Hobbit clients. I use a NFS mount with

/home/hobbit for the client on each system.


So, if I have my own test, they all kick-off about

the same time.


I'd prefer them to stager during the 5 minutes.


Has anyone else encountered this?


Thanks….James

-- 

Iain Miller
user-6f16c60bcd50@xymon.invalid