Re: [squid-users] how to simulate big file workload test for squid

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:27:12 +0800, du du <ergod.vip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I want to make a workload test for squid, I want to use the tool
> web-polygraph which has some standard workload models. But in these
> workload, the content size is too small to me.
>
> Dose anyone has a modified workload with big content size or has another
> method to simulate big file transaction?
>
> My file size is 1-5MB

Your own access.log history is probably the best source of such info.
The actual file contents does not matter to Squid so can be synthesized to
fit the URLs logged transfer sizes, with the URLs themselves re-written to
match for the testing.
(Have not done this on a large scale or with web-polygraph myself)

Amos
Received on Tue Sep 21 2010 - 03:27:41 MDT