Re: newbie: simple squid proxy testing

From: Alex Rousskov (rousskov@measurement-factory.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 14:58:13 MST


On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, anindya wrote:

> I have only 3 machines at my disposal, the proxy squid (solaris), a
> linux laptop, and a freebsd machine. How should I configure the 3 so
> that will be a "reasonable" test? <I realize this is a rather broad
> question, but I don't even understand how to simulate, say 400 users
> hitting the proxy at once>

In addition to Duane's response which was loaded with specific
information related to custom workloads, please note that a good first
step may be to simply run a standard PolyMix-4 test. How-Tos are
available:
        http://www.web-polygraph.org/docs/workloads/polymix-4/
        http://www.measurement-factory.com/docs/

Good luck,

Alex.

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