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! > We also wanted to stress test our new server before going live. To get the load we wrote two small perl programs, one for the server and one for the clients. The server part generated files with different sizes. The file sizes where picked to look like dvd/cd-iso:s(4.5GB, 700MB), ordinary packages (1-150MB) and small files (1-100k). The program also generated a list containing url:s to the files (both ftp and http). To avoid just getting files from cache we generated a file set with the total size four times the size of ram (in our case 256GB). At the clients we had another perl program that fetched the list containing the url:s, started a given number of downloads threads, picked a file randomly from the list and and downloaded the file to /dev/null. This way we tested the configuration of httpd, ftpd and the os i one test. At the most we had 12 clients running a total of 7000 simultaneous downloads. This really helped us to detect bottlenecks and find other problems in the configuration. regards, Tobias Lundquist