Hi,
I just discovered flood, and I'm interested in writing my own report based on the raw output. The only documentation I can find is here:
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-test/flood/docs/docbook/ flood.xml?rev=1.8&view=markup
Last updated on April 15, 2004, where it says at the very end:
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<chapter>
<title>Analyzing Flood output</title>
<para>No information available at this time.</para>
</chapter>I've done a bit of reverse engineering with the "examples/analyze-relative" script and believe that the columns represent the following:
1 ??? 2 connect 3 write 4 read 5 close 6 response 7 ??? 8 URL
As you can see, I can't figure out the 1st and 7th columns. I would love it if someone could help me out on this. I'm working on a Perl version of the "analyze-relative" script so I can expand what it does.
Perhaps a question I should get answered before all of the above is whether flood is still being developed, if it is reliable/doing what I think, etc.? Should I be using flood or can someone point me to a better program for stress-testing a web server with a bunch of URLs.
ky
