[hobbit] randomizing execution of tests

[Larry Barber]

You can also stretch out your testing interval by limiting the concurrency
in bbtest-net. See the man page for the exact syntax.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Paper <hobbit at ginch.org> wrote:

> Greetings hobbit gurus [0],
>
> While I am still trying to search my way to an answer via the archives of
> this list and google, I'm hoping someone could point me in the right
> direction.
>
> I've got a bb-hosts file with 8 server process instances getting tested.
>  Each instance gets tested with 3 HTTP requests (2 GET, 1 POST).  All 8
> server processes live on the same physical OS instance.  This results in 24
> HTTP requests getting sent from hobbit within 1/100th of a second.  This
> causes the load on the host to spike, and generates contention w/in each
> server to satisfy the requests.  This same setup is repeated for hundreds of
> hosts and hundreds of processes.
>
> Is there a way to tell hobbit to take all of the entries in bb-hosts and
> test them in a random order w/in the 1 minute testing interval?  This would
> end up staggering the arrival of each HTTP test somewhat and lessen
> contention within each HTTP server and on each host.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -dave
>
> [0] Of which I am not, but ... maybe one day.
>
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>
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