The reason I ask is I'm unsure if the machine is having issues and I'd like to see if it's a machine issue or what. Also, I sure hope there aren't any issues... It's a RAID5 on a gigabit uplink. -- Kate Gerry OC3 Networks & Web Solutions 530 W 6th Street #901 Los Angeles, CA 90014 kate at oc3networks.com -----Original Message----- From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of mirror-maintainer at mirror.averse.net Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 15:19 To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Good stress tester... On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Kate Gerry wrote: > I've been setting up a mirror and I would like to know if anybody has > any good ideas on how to stress test it without being live? > > I'd like to be able to simulate a lot of requests from either one or > multiple IPs (I know I'd have to run it on more than one system) > > Please let me know as I'm not sure if it's working correctly as of yet! IMO, real world traffic for static files (ie, normal mirror servers) are unlikely to stress mirrors much. The bottleneck is likely to be available bandwidth, I/O, or possibly RAM/available threads/file descriptors to serve requests. Unless you're just trying to see at what the limit really is at which your server will fail... _______________________________________________ CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror