[rds-devel] Running rds-stress on multiple machines

[Jon Mason]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:29:29PM -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
> Jon Mason wrote:
>> I am running rds-stress as a test tool to harden RDS iWARP support.
>> The rds-stress man page seems to imply that it is possible to connect
>> to multiple systems in a single test run.  However this does not seem
>> to be working.  If I pass multiple "send addresses" to rds-stress, I
>> do not see any errors.  However, only the last system specified in
>> the command is connected to.
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> rds-stress doesn't appear to support connecting to multiple systems at  
> once, currently. If there is ambiguity in the man page then we should  
> clear it up, where did you see this hinted at?

"rds-stress sends messages between groups tasks, usually running on
seperate machines."  'Machines' seemed to imply it to me, but obviously I
was wrong.

Having rds-stress fail if more than one '-s' is included might be a nice
fix :)

> Have you tried running more than 1 rds-stress concurrently? That might  
> be a way to work around this.

Yes, that is my alternative.  Any other suggestions on how to stress RDS
over iWARP?

Thanks,
Jon


> Regards -- Andy