Re: ssl and polygraph

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Paonia Ezrine wrote:
> 
> > I have need for a test program that can hit a squid box hard.
> 
> Polygraph can do this.
> 
> > Probly only one url over and over again. I think polygraph will do
> > this.
> 
> Polygraph can do this, but it is not a "hard workload". 
> 
> You would need to use a single robot, set working set size to 1
> object, set recurrence ratio to 100%, and public ratio to 0%. You can
> start with simple.pg as a template.
> 
> I am sure that this extremely artificial workload will lead to some
> negative side-effects in Polygraph behavior, but it should work.

lets say the squid box is not the bottle neck what kind of hit/sec can a
single pentium 800 (running linux or FreeBSD) running polygrpah generate?

> 
> > I also need it to do the same thing but for a https request
> > instead of a http request will polygraph do this? 
> 
> Unfortunately, Polygraph does not support https yet. We are waiting
> for somebody to sponsor the development :). 

:)
How much work would it be?
do you know of any other tools that would do this and fast and free? tried
pagepoker and wtest both of too slow?
> 
> Note that Squid acts as a simple tunnel for SSL requests (no caching
> or even complex header processing, etc.).

using the squid+ssl patch from Benno
thanks
Paonia

> 
> Alex.
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