Hi Brent,
The information you provide is insufficient to offer any insight
into the problems you are facing (except for error message descriptions,
see below). However, I can recommend the following plan that may help
you to get some progress.
0) Use FreeBSD instead of Solaris, if you can. Polygraph will
probably work on Solaris, but you will need to work around a
couple of compatibility problems. See this list archive for
Solaris-related complaints. This step is optional, of course.
1) Use Polygraph 2.2.9
http://polygraph.ircache.net/sources/
2) Start with simple.pg workload (a ``hello-world'' test)
http://polygraph.ircache.net/UserManual/simple.html
Try these configurations, in order
- no-proxy (no --proxy option, no WCCP)
- explicit proxying (--proxy option)
- TCP hijacking (no --proxy option, WCCP)
This order helps you to isolate a Poly problem from
WCCP and other "external" problems.
3) When simple.pg is working (all configurations),
start playing with PolyMix-2
http://polygraph.ircache.net/Workloads/
http://bakeoff.ircache.net/N02/howto.txt
You may want to try the same configurations as before, in
the same order.
Polygraph run-time messages, including errors, are documented at
http://polygraph.ircache.net/doc/messages.html
Note that documentation covers 2.2.9 version and may not apply to
the ancient version you are running now.
If the above documentation is not sufficient, please do not hesitate to
ask specific questions!
Good luck,
Alex.
P.S. You may also want to seek advice from the Lucent group that brought
a couple of caches to the second bake-off. They have first-hand
experience with Polygraph and PolyMix-2.
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Brent Bennett wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm with Lucent technologies and currently working on a Web Cache
> eval and recommendation gig at a client. We're using Polygraph to benchmark
> 2 products (Cisco 590 and Inktomi Traffic Server). We're running Polygraph
> (Server and Client) on two identical Solaris 2.6 platforms with default
> configs. We've compiled Polygraph and are ready to use it. We've run the
> server successfully, but we're having problems with the client. Before I go
> any further, I must mention that I've never used Polygraph before and my
> Unix skills are rusty at best. My Solaris skills are worse.
>
> We're trying to run polyclt as follows:
>
> polyclt --unique_urls 1 --ports 1024:30000 --rep_cachable 100p
> --origin 207.123.170.3:80 --robots 1 --goal 10000sec
>
> and the server side using
> polysrv --goal 1hr --port 80
>
> We are using WCCP 1.0 on a Cisco 4000 router to redirect the port 80
> traffic and the Cisco web cache 540 is setup transparantly to receive the
> port 80 http requests.
>
> The errors that we see on a consistant basis on the polyclt server
> are:
>
> (259) premature end of msg header
> (260) no-content (don't have it handy)
>
> We've had a couple Solaris gurus verify that the system isn't the
> problem. Could you tell us what the most likely cause of these errors
> is?
>
>
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> Lucent NetworkCare Professional Services
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