----- Original Message ----- From: "Watch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:08 PM Subject: Re: flood and memory
> Hi. > > >> while using flood with 40MB config file, > > > >That's quite a size. Can you give more details on it? In particular how > many > >url's/url lists do you have, and how many farmers are running them in > >parallel. > > here is more information that you requested. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/httpd-test/flood# ls -alh mainconf.xml > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39M 2004-08-16 17:20 mainconf.xml > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/httpd-test/flood# grep "<urllist>" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 109 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/httpd-test/flood# grep "<url " mainconf.xml |wc -l > 521393 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/httpd-test/flood# grep "<profile>" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 109 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/httpd-test/flood# grep "<farmer>" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 109 > > Basically, there are 109 different web's (like www.web1.com, www.web2.com, > etc.) and each web has list of url's, own profile, own farmer. All farmers > are placed into one "<farm>". > > I started to divide that config file in to smaller ones. First one 4.8MB > survived, second one is 2.1MB and still takes all memory. Here are more > details on it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/private# ls -alh mainconf.xml > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1M 2004-08-17 15:47 mainconf.xml > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/private# grep "<urllist>" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 17 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/private# grep "<url " mainconf.xml |wc -l > 30144 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/private# grep "<profile>" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 17 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/private# grep "<farmer>" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 17 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/private# grep "\"GET\"" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 30045 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/private# grep "\"POST\"" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 85 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/private# grep "\"HEAD\"" mainconf.xml |wc -l > 0 > > >You mean: 'takes the client down', yes? The server can go down under heavy > >load, and you schould use other performance related tools to find out why. > > > >If you happen to run HTTP server and flood on the same machine, then this > is > >not such a good idea. With that big config file you are sure to have flood > and > >http daemon race for resources (which distorts overall results). > > Http server is on another machine, it works fine. And flood has it's own > box, without anything else running on it. Only one process - flood - takes > all memory (ram and swap) and when there is nothing left, kernel kills the > flood process. > > >Look at your flood source tree, find file 'config.h' (top source dir) and > >check for define FLOOD_VERSION. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/httpd-test/flood# grep FLOOD_VERSION config.h > #define FLOOD_VERSION "1.1" > > regards, > Jacek Prucia > >
