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28160: Re: [MUD-Dev] Load Testing a MUD

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From: Marc Bowden <ryumo@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 21:56:43 -0400
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--On Tuesday, September 9, 2003 17:34 -0600 Lars Duening 
<lars@bearnip.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Marc Bowden wrote:

>> We've never done *that*, per se, but we do force-load new areas
>> all at once to see what kind of load impact it has on the shared
>> machine. This can turn up some interesting problems before they
>> hurt you...

> This is actually one way one of my users tests the LPC driver: he
> runs script which randomly loads every single object in the mud,
> and then randomly destructs and re-loads them. It's not quite as
> good as a 'real' loadtest, but already helped a couple of times in
> finding tricky problems.  

*nods* Nice to know the breaking strain of the pointer table before
the screaming starts. ;)

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Marc Bowden - Soulsinger         Dreamshadow:The Legacy of the Three
  ryumo@umich.edu                                 209.48.36.2 3333
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