I think I will use zones to have multiple agents on the same machine. 
With 2000 users spread over 3 agents on 3 machines, the load on the
target is only 40%.  By putting several agents on zones I should be able
to scale up without hitting that limit.

Thanks,
Brian

Akara Sucharitakul wrote:
> We are looking at some possible memory leaks, but cannot yet isolate
> them whether these are Faban issues, our workload driver issues, or
> some library issues. Not even sure they are memory leaks just yet.
>
> Based on experience with this workload, I'd suggest running up to ~700
> concurrent users per agent if you're running the agents in a 32 bit
> address space. Just increase the number of agents. At 1500 concurrent
> users, I suggest 3 agents (although you may be able to survive with
> 2). The load will be evenly distributed among agents.
>
> -Akara
>
> Brian Overstreet wrote:
>> With the current architecture of Faban and Olio, are there any known
>> limits on the number of concurrent users?  When I scale the number of
>> users up to 1500 per agent, the JVM running the agent crashes.  I was
>> wondering if other people have had higher numbers per agent.  This might
>> be more relevant to the faban list, but I'll start here.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>

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