Re: port range for polymix3 test

From: Alex Rousskov (rousskov@measurement-factory.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 23:56:21 MDT


On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Jihong A. Kim wrote:

> I have a question about a proper port range for polymix 3 testing.
>
> When I run my polymix client, I run with an option '--ports 3000:30000'.
> (this was for testing with 550 req/sec).
>
> Is the above option likely to cause problem for my testing?

No.

> What is the default ports setting if the 'ports' option is not
> set?

The default is to let OS pick the port numbers from the ephemeral port
range. Polygraph usually does a better job of accounting used ports
than OS, for some unknown to me reason.
 
> Do you think I should run the test with '--ports 3000:40000' instead?

No.

Alex.



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