RE: Load test CVS

[Jim.Hyslop]

Martin d'Anjou wrote:
> To: Jim.Hyslop
> > Exactly what are you concerned about?
> 
> The stress level of my managers and co-workers ;-)
<cough> Please don't make jokes like that when I have a mouth full of
coffee!

Seriously, though, are you concerned about data integrity, server
throughput, hard drive bottlenecks, or what?

> I want to run a load test on the machine, and I figure tons 
> of CVS queries
> and operations are a nice way to do that from multiple 
> clients for a week
> will do. Any suggestions or should I be writing a script to 
> produce random
> operations?
Hmmm... seems to me the operations will have to appear random to the server,
but still be predictable and manageable so that the files can be easily
tested for integrity. I'm not aware of any scripts like that (but that's not
really a good measure of whether they exist or not :-).

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)