On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 04:01 +0000, Tran Hong Quan wrote:
> I have L4 Switch which redirects all http packets to transparent cache
> server pool. Can I test total throughput of my transparent cache
> server pool by using commands like these:
>
> polysrv \
> --config /usr/local/polygraph/workloads/simple.pg \
> --verb_lvl 10
> polyclt \
> --config /usr/local/polygraph/workloads/simple.pg \
> --verb_lvl 10
Yes, although production testing using simple.pg workload may not be a
good idea because it does not produce a realistic traffic pattern.
> I means that can I run polyclt without --proxy option?
Yes.
> Because http requests will be redirected automatically to cache pool
> by L4 Switch and the switch will do the load balancing on all cache
> servers.
If L4 load balances based on IP addresses or ports, then simple.pg will
not work well for you because it does not use a realistic (i.e., large)
pool of source addresses.
HTH,
Alex.
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