Re: [K12OSN] ideas for doing benchmarks/stress testing

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Excellent!  This is great news, and it just so happens that the latest
openMosix stress-test package was announced on the oM general discussion
list today:

http://www.openmosixview.com/omtest/

Hope this helps you in your testing quest!

James Jensen
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--- Eric Harrison  wrote:
> 
> Four shiny new servers destined to be proxy/web filters (each w/P4 1.8Ghz
> & 1G
> ram) arrived today. I needed to stress test them before sending them out
> the
> door.
> 
> What a better way than to play with clustering software? ;-)
> 
> I did a default install of K12LTSP 2.1.1 & added the Mosix kernel & tools
> and quickly had my own little mini supercomputer burning up the bits.
> 
> I was at a bit of a loss on how to test it.
> 
> As we venture down this road of working on massive scalability,
> benchmarking
> becomes more and more important. How do we test a 100+ terminal network
> without having a 100+ kids typing away on a 100+ terminals?
> 
> For some of my testing, I've been using VNC. With VNC, it is very easy to
> simulate a large number of logins in a short period of time without even
> having
> to use a terminal. I create a bunch of fake users (user a w/password a,
> user b
> w/password b, etc) and fire off a bunch of VNC sessions. This works
> *great*
> for simulating a whole lab of kids logging in at once.
> 
> Any ideas on how to simulate normal application usage? Command line apps
> are a piece of cake, but how does one go about simulating GUI app usage? 
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 
> 
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