[Kc] Saturation Party

david nicol whatever at davidnicol.com
Sun Dec 7 17:24:05 CST 2003


Wouldn't it be better to run a load simulation on a second
box, have it connect and request random files?




On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 20:30, Tom Miller wrote:
> Your Invited to a "Saturation Party"!
>
> What is exactly a "Saturation party"?
> My web provider and I are interested in pushing his web server to its
> limits.
> We would like to see how it runs under a really heavy load.  NO THIS
> IS NOT A
> REQUEST FOR A DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK!  Please don't!
>  
> What's in it for you?  You can Chat with all your friends in this
> newsgroup
> in real-time and/or you can search my collection of over 140,000 files
> that
> are online and download anything you want....  How many are needed?  I
> don't
> really know, but the server is configured to stop accepting
> connections at 10,000.
> So any large number (1,500+) should be sufficient for the test. I will
> be online in
> the Chat system that night.   (My handle is: tlgalenson).


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david nicol
	                                Where the hell did I put my coffee?




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