| flood STATUS: -*-text-*- |
| Last modified at [$Date$] |
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| Release: |
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| ASF-transfer: Released July 17, 2001 |
| milestone-0-1: Tagged July 11, 2001 (tag lost during transfer) |
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| RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS: |
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| * "Everything needs to work perfectly" |
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| Other bugs that need fixing: |
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| * DNS lookup failures in any <urllist> cause segfault. |
| Justin says: Wow. Why? |
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| * Misformed URLs cause a segfault. When we fix this we should |
| make sure to print out a helpful message when this occurs. |
| (This is not something that can be detected with a validating |
| XML parser, unfortunately.) |
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| * iPlanet sends "Content-length" - there is a hack in there now |
| to recognize it. However, all HTTP headers need to be normalized |
| before checking their values. This isn't easy to do. Grr. |
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| Other features that need writing: |
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| * Validation of responses (known C-L, specific strings in response) |
| Status: Justin volunteers |
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| * HTTP error codes (ie. teach it about 302s) |
| Justin says: Yeah, this won't be with round_robin as implemented. |
| Need a linked list-based profile where we can insert |
| new URLs into the sequence. |
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| * Farmer (Single-thread, multiple profiles) |
| Status: Aaron says: If you have threads, then any Farmer can be |
| run as part of any Farm. If you don't have threads, you can |
| currently only run one Farmer named "Joe" right now (this will |
| be changed so that if you don't have threads, flood will attempt |
| to run all Farmers in serial under one process). |
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| * Collective (Single-host, multiple farms) |
| This is a number of Farms that have been fork()ed into child processes. |
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| * Megaconglomerate (Multiple hosts each running a collective) |
| This is a number of Collectives running on a number of hosts, invoked |
| via RSH/SSH or maybe even some proprietary mechanism. |
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| * Other types of urllists |
| a) Random / Random-weighted |
| b) Sequenced (useful with cookie propogation) |
| c) Round-robin |
| d) Chaining of the above strategies |
| Status: Round-robin is complete. |
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| * Other types of reports |
| Status: Aaron says: "simple" reports are functional. Justin added |
| a new type that simply prints the approx. timestamp when |
| the test was run, and the result as OK/FAIL; it is called |
| "easy reports" (see flood_easy_reports.h). |
| Furthermore, simple_reports and easy_reports both print |
| out the current requesting URI line. |
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| Documentation that needs writing: |
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| * Documentation? What documentation? RTFS? |
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| * Feature set |
| We'll have to eventually write down all the features we support, |
| which will most likely come out to be the various XML parameters |
| we support. |
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| Available Patches: |
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| Open issues: |
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| * Validating XML Parser? |
| Justin says: I don't think we want this. We want a standalone |
| validator. |
| Aaron says: I strongly feel we should have this turned on at |
| least for the invoking "Megaconglomerate". The added |
| overhead for validating when we're already parsing |
| will be minimal. It will not affect the results of |
| the tests. It only happens when a new flood process |
| is created (directly or via rsh/ssh), not when invoking |
| a collective, farm, farmer, or profile. What it gives |
| us from the user's standpoint is far greater than |
| the impact of the added startup overhead. |
| (Maybe a flood argument that disables it for when |
| some UI wrapper already did the checking or if it's |
| being invoked as part of a megaconglomerate (rsh/ssh).) |
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| * Supporting use of installed APR / APR-util |
| Justin says: Requires changes to APR/APR-util to make it install |
| the right stuff. We currently rely on the source. |
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| * Mandrake Linux 8.0 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a just aren't coexisting at all. |
| The problem seems to be that OpenSSL is refusing to initialize the |
| PRNG. Go figure. I give up on this for now, but it is a big nasty |
| bug in something somewhere. This code works on Solaris/Intel. |
| That's all I'll say on the matter for now. |
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| * Report Aggregation |
| We're not sure how to handle reporting quite yet. We'd like to keep |
| it open ended and flexible, but that will be difficult to do while |
| maintaining the ability to run a huge variety of tests. |
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| * WebLogic 5.10 Service Pack 9 |
| No one told BEA how to make an HTTP server. Send it Connection: Close |
| and a cookie, and it'll respond with Connection: Keep-Alive (no cookie |
| and it honors Connection: Close). That's wrong. |
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| * OpenSSL 0.9.6 |
| Segfaults under high load. Upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.6b. |