From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2005-11-09T01:11:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Web Bench 0.0.0 (RWB)


On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:32 AM, pat eyler wrote:

> On 11/8/05, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2005, at 7:52 PM, pat eyler wrote:
>> Since you are asking for suggestions, one thing that would be nice,
>> maybe it is already there and I just didn't notice it, is a warmup
>> phase. In the applications I'm working on the first couple hits on a
>> URL causes work to be done that I don't really want timed.
>
> Not there yet, but I love the idea, so I'll add it shortly.  How does
> something like this look:
>
> (in the RWB::Runner class)
> warmup(num_times)               # this would just walk through the
>                                             # array of urls and
> url_groups num_times
>                                             # times, making num_times
> * array.length
>                                             # total requests
>
> rand_warmup(num_requests)  # this would randomly select urls to  
> request,
>                                             # making num_requests
> total requests.

Looks good. Maybe with the ability to sepecify a set of URLs to  
warmup on and an order within them? Maybe too much work for small gain?

Cheers,
Bob