[httperf] time wait limits

[Adrian Chadd]

Are you running the CVS httperf?

The CVS httperf shouldn't have FD_SETSIZE FD limits. You need libevent
installed though!



Adrian



On Mon, Aug 11, 2008, david at lang.hm wrote:
> I spent a bit of time fighting httperf over the weekend, and from reading 
> the list archives there's a lot of problems in figuring out how to trigger 
> parallel requests during testing.
> 
> my test environment
> 
> server  Debian Etch running apache 2
> 32G ram, 4x dual core Opteron CPU's, hardware raid controller with battery 
> backed cache and 2x 144G 15K rpm drives
> 
> client same
> 
> using the apache benchmark tool (ab) I could get 21,000 connections/sec 
> with apache prefork, and 23,000 connections/sec with apache worker
> 
> with httperf I had trouble getting anywhere near those numbers.
> 
> to deal with the problem of running out of client ports I set 
> net.ipv4.ip_tw_reuse=1 and net.ipv4.ip_tw_recycle=1
> 
> this lets me get up to several thousand connections/sec
> 
> by setting the --rate to several thousand and the --num-calls to 20 or so 
> I was able to get it to start doing more connections in parallel
> 
> the problem I keep running into is the file descripter limits. why is it 
> that the max file descripters are capped at FD_SETSIZE no matter what the 
> ulimit is set to?
> 
> it would be handy if the option were to be added to be able to specify the 
> source IP address to use (or to be able to provide a list/range of 
> addresses to use)
> 
> with modern hardware it's really easy to exceed the limits
> 
> David Lang
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