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Giuliani Death Watch
January 29, 2008
The great tragedy of Rudy Giuliani's precipitous decline is that The New York Times will at some point be forced to stop writing the exact same story about his campaign. In the last 5 days alone, we have read, courtesy of the Times: --Giuliani Finds Snowbird Friends in Florida, But Is He Winning Over Voters? --Hopes Pinned on Florida, Giuliani Sees Tough Week --Less of a Draw, A Subdued Giuliani Stays Upbeat None of these pieces, though admittedly fun, were as amusing as Dana Milbank's pre-mortem in The Washington Post today.
Establishment V. Clintons
January 29, 2008
In my piece this week, I tried to get at establishment Washington's frustrations with the Clintons, which have boiled over in recent weeks but have been simmering for years. Last night Politico editor John Harris, one of the most astute Clinton observers around, weighed in with his own take on this phenomenon, and it's well worth your time.
He Doesn't Want Her To Win
January 29, 2008
I always thought that Bill Clinton really had mixed feelings about whether he wanted Hillary to be president. In fact, I wrote that I didn't think he did. I am now more convinced than ever that he doesn't want her in the White House, and he is doing his darndest to keep her out. He just might succeed.
Trust But Take A Reality Check
January 28, 2008
Back in the late '80s, during his negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev, President Reagan used to repeat the Russian proverb: "doveryai, no proveryai"--"trust but verify." The--updated--theme for tonight might well be "trust but take a reality check." Trusting the people (and empowering them through government action) is a great theme but, as I pointed out earlier, it is at odds with the actual record of the Bush administration.
Laundry List? Spin Cycle?
January 28, 2008
The writing of a State of the Union – SOTU in the internal White House parlance – is a central organizing tool of an Administration. At their worst, after all the departments and agencies and sleeve-tuggers in Washington have had their say, State of the Union addresses become the cliched laundry lists you hear so much about. At their best, they are thematic addresses that use specific policy initiatives to illustrate the direction in which the president will lead. The question is which direction Bush will take. --Andrei Cherny
Special Guest: Andrei Cherny Live-blogging The Sotu
January 28, 2008
Tonight, special guest Andrei Cherny will be live-blogging President Bush's last State of the Union address. In addition to being the author of two books on US politics, Cherny is a former senior speechwriter and advisor to Vice President Al Gore--the youngest White House speechwriter in American history. He is currently the editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Be sure to check out him out on the Plank during and after the president's speech tonight. --The Editors
The Clintons And The Race Card
January 28, 2008
No one can deny that the Clintons play the race card. But it wasn't until the South Carolina primary that many people realized that they play it both ways. I have to admit that I myself only dimly recalled the smarmy stuff that Christopher Hitchens documented in Slate today. I also have to admit that I am loathe to be indebted to Hitchens for anything. But it can't be helped. He has the cynicism and self-righteousness of the couple down cold. Refresh your memory, think about the ugly analogy to Jesse Jackson, and shudder...Do we really want these two in the White House?
What Would Janet Reno Do?
January 28, 2008
Lest you think Obama's getting all the big endorsements today, it should be noted for the record that Janet Reno is backing Hillary. This is actually moderately surprising, given Reno's conflicted relationship with the Clintons--especially Hillary.
The Take-away From South Carolina
January 26, 2008
What you need to know about tonight's results: 1.) Obama took nearly 80 percent of the black vote, yes, but also about a quarter of the white vote. That stacks up pretty well alongside Hillary's 36 percent and Edwards's 40***--well enough that Nora O'Donnell of MSNBC could call it "almost a three-way split," and The New York Times could proclaim that a "coalition of white and black support" powered Obama's victory. This is a huge development going forward.
Was This Obama's Best Speech Yet? Maybe.
January 26, 2008
I'll leave the sophisticated electoral analysis to my more sophisticated colleagues, Noam and Mike. But I have to say something about Obama's speech, which is the best I've seen him give in a while, if not the entire campaign. That's a high standard, I know, but I think it's true. Tonight's address was every bit as lyrical as the speech Obama gave in Iowa. And it touched on many of the same themes, about healing division and building a movement of voters seeking change. But those themes weren't as front-and-center as they were earlier in the month.


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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
2/28/2014 (1 year ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Officials with the Egyptian army say they've found a cure for both AIDS and hepatitis C - that will cure the patient in as little as 16 hours. It's a brave claim, which has piqued interest - and condemnation across the globe. Scientists argue that this latest claim will further damage Egypt's international reputation, still reeling from government instability after the Arab spring.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "I defeated AIDS with the grace of my God at the rate of 100 percent. And I defeated hepatitis C," Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Abdel-Atti, head of the Cancer Treatment and Screening center declared.
Scathing criticism was quick to follow. "I want to be clear and explicit, what has been said and published about the invention of the armed forces hurts the image of scientists and science in Egypt," Essam Heggy, the scientific adviser to the President told reporters.
Saint Patrick's Day is coming -- go here!
The purported "Complete Cure Device" draws blood from a patient, breaks down the disease and returns the purified blood back to the body, according to Dr. Ihsan Hanfy Hussein. A member of Abdel-Atti's research team, she says the process cures all ailments in as little as 16 hours.
"I will take the AIDS from the patient and I will nourish the patient on the AIDS treatment. I will give it to him like a skewer of Kofta to nourish him," Abdel-Atti said, referring to a dish made of ground meat.
"I will take it away from him as a disease and give it back to him in the form of a cure," he said. "This is the greatest form of scientific breakthrough."
Egypt contains the highest prevalence of hepatitis C worldwide, with at least 10 percent of the population suffering from the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Abdel-Atti paid tribute to the military chief and unofficial presidential hopeful, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who attended the unveiling of the "miracle" device registered under the armed forces and approved by the country's Ministry of Health.
The announcement has shocked the Egyptian medical and scientific community. "What has been said is not scientifically disciplined," Dr. Gamal Shiha, a leading liver specialist and member of the team evaluating the device.
"There is nothing published, and there is nothing in medical conferences, and there is no single eminent professor around the project," Shiha says. "Nothing scientifically relevant has been said."
In the meantime, pro-military journalists and media outlets have urged their countrymen to rejoice after the army announced the invention will be available in June.
"Has the level of doubt reached such a high level on an international breakthrough? This will benefit all of humanity and solve a crisis that the medical community has not been able to fix for years. This is something we should celebrate," Maha Salim, a state media reporter, said on private network Tahrir TV.
Pope Francis calls for your 'prayer and action'...
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St. Benedict
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St. Joseph
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St. Francis of Assisi
St. Matthew
St. John the Baptist
St. George
By Kaci Racelma (Catholic Online)
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) has claimed responsibility for the July 2 terrorist attack that took the lives of seven soldiers from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (Minusma). ALGIERS, ALGERIA (Catholic Online) - ... continue reading
By Talia Ramos (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Last Friday, a very tragic event happened at the Imperial Marhaba Beach Hotel in Sousse, Tunisia. A 23-year-old man dressed just like any other tourist, passed by the hotel, and shot foreigners with a Kalashnikov rifle, he had hidden under his umbrella. Thirty-nine ... continue reading
By Talia Ramos (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Italian authorities have given the Catholic priests permission to "exorcise," or do counter-magic to Nigerian migrant girls who have been "under a voodoo spell to work as prostitutes." There are around 25,000 women from Nigeria who have been brought to Italy by ... continue reading
By Linky C. (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Two hundred and nineteen girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, from the boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, are believed to have been brainwashed and now working for the Boko Haram, as reported by Amnesty International. The girls who were taken from their school grounds, a ... continue reading
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Thirty-seven people have been killed - and at least another 36 were injured in a terrorist shooting spree in the beachside town of Sousse in Tunisia. At least five people from the United Kingdom are listed as among the dead. The believed gunman in the massacre, ... continue reading
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
It's a satanic practice once thought consigned to a very, very dark age - but it is increasing in frequency throughout the African nation of Uganda. "Witch doctors" are abducting and killing schoolchildren to use their body parts in malefic rituals. It is ... continue reading
By Katy Migiro, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Men in war-torn Somalia suffer high rates of drug addiction, divorce and mental illness, researchers said, urging donors to do more to support men and strengthen families. NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Somali culture, men are expected to provide all ... continue reading
By Atarah Haely (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
As Katherine Chappell, the American tourist attacked and killed by a lion during an African safari tour, was being attacked, the staff of the park hesitated to treat Chappell and the ambulance took a long time to arrive, according to Pierre Potgieter, the tour guide. ... continue reading
By Obianuju Ekeocha
In the last few years, we have woken up to the indescribable horror and terror of Boko Haram. And every one of us will agree that their actions and operations are merciless, viscous and violent beyond words. And so we pray for an end to the death and destruction ... continue reading
By Stella Dawson, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Multinational companies deprive African governments of $11 billion in taxes each year, and G7 world leaders should set up a new global body to regulate corporate taxation, Oxfam International said on Monday. WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - By shifting ... continue reading

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Jeremy's Beard Is Going Gray, But Only One Side? [VIDEO]
This morning I noticed that my beard was turning gray... but only on one side. Unfortunately, that's not all I noticed!
This morning I noticed that my beard was turning gray... but only on one side. Unfortunately, that's not all I noticed!
I sleep like a rock, but AJ has a lot of trouble sleeping. Instead of taking something to sleep, how about a spray?
This is great news for parents and grandparents!
The famous legal clerk, portrayed by Julia Roberts in the film Erin Brockovich, has started the conversation about the water problems in Flint on her Facebook page.
When Martin Pistorious was 12 years old, he started to lose his ability to move. Doctors suspected meningitis, but it was too late. His body was paralyzed and slipped into a coma.
Since Flint transitioned to a new water source in April of 2014, residents have dealt with everything from smelly water to boil advisories. Needless to say, residents are fed up!
I recently started hypnotherapy to help cope with an eating disorder, and I thought I'd share my story with you.
Need some motivation to lose a few in the new year? Look no further than Dennis the Dachsund.
Have the tissues ready; this will make your heart melt.
Check out Hollywood's most dramatic weight loss before and after photos.
A HAPPY ENDING! I loved this story when I first read it, and I love it even more now after the great news!
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This will be best mod for CrysisWars.. :))
Crysis Co-op is a mod that will enable AI in multiplayer for cooperative gameplay.
12 comments by Fudsine on Dec 11th, 2011
News Update 11/12/2011
On the 1st November we announced on our Crysis 2 Co-op mod page that we would be working on the Crysis Wars project again. So im proud to announce yes we are going to be working on this project alongside Crysis 2 Co-op. A few people have been contacting me and asking me what we have so far, so we quickly put this video together to show you whats in the works!
Similiar to our release plan for Crysis 2 co-op we plan to release one or two maps at first and from there patch it with the rest of the campaign and our custom maps we made before the project was cancelled.
Stay tuned for more!
~The Crysis 2 and Crysis Wars Co-op Team
This will be best mod for CrysisWars.. :))
Glad to see your all looking foward to it, hope to see something good from us soon
looks good guys hope to use this on a zombie map i am thinking of making where you stay alive as long as you can with friends and you can go any where on the island.(even thinking of putting in some zombie caves:)nice work though.
Coop capability and bots in mp are what this game has been missing all along!
Thanks to Fudsine and crew for this awesome project, there's alot of people out there looking for Co-op capability for Crysis, as well as Mp AI.
This is sure to be a hit when released. I'm definitely watching this one.
Been waiting a while for something like this, it's BEAUTIFUL! Seriously keep up the awesome work! :D
Wow, really looks cool. Especially when you see the other guy infiltrate by jumping in. Looks very cinematic. Oh well it's Crysis, what the hell doesn't look cinematic. Anyway... Keep up the good work. I hope this mod doesn't take to long before it's released.
Some brilliant work you got there, tracking ;D
awesome guys! tracked&can't wait to play =] keep up the brilliant work!
Great work guys! I cant wait for this to come out, I was just wondering if you could help me with something. You see im trying to make a small coop map just for me and my couple of friends , nothing uber complicated. But whenever I place AI on the map they act like punching bags, they just stand there and do nothing, they work fine in the editor thou. So im wondering if you could explain me how you did this.
P.S. do you have a release date on this mod. Cant wait xD
we dont have a release date yet progress is slow, lack of level designers and the standard AI dosent work in MP u cant enalbe it, it has to be rewritten or recreated
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I have a question, it is possible to extend the right? It would be great if I had the opportunity to decide who write separate right and who can create issues. So I can create the right adjusting the normal user in the A-Grade contributions but no issues. in the category b again, he can write posts but also create issues.
is this somehow possible? I also can not reply to locked topics that should be added for officers as administrator. I also do not know if offziere the already worn they should be able to as the admin theme and open the way to edit. In addition to lacking a functional themes to change the title and very important contributions to move to a different topic or theme in all other categories ... there is the possibility to take a manual to or is it all included in the next update?


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A computer-based method for load testing a web application to determine the web application's full capacity using a plurality of load generators. The computer-based method comprises generating a load on the web application using at least one load generator and measuring the transactions per second (TPS) and application response time (ART) in real time. Another load generator is selected to dynamically increase the load on the web application if there is no increase in the TPS and the ART, thereby indicating that the load generator is at full capacity. However, if there is an increase in ART but no increase in the TPS with the increasing load, then the load testing is terminated since this indicates that the web application is at full capacity.
1. A computer based method for load testing a web application to determine the web application's full capacity, comprising the steps of:
(a) selecting at least one load generator from a plurality of load generators to generate a load on said web application;
(b) measuring transactions per second (TPS) in real-time by said at least one load generator and application response time (ART) in real-time by a probing client;
(c) controlling said at least one load generator to dynamically increase said load on said web application;
(d) measuring said TPS and said ART in real-time by said at least one load generator and said probing client, respectively, to determine if said TPS and/or said ART increased with said load increase;
(e) selecting another load generator from said plurality of load generators to dynamically increase said load on said web application by a pre-determined amount if it is determined that said TPS and said ART did not increase with said load increase, thereby indicating that said at least one load generator is at full capacity and unable to dynamically increase said load by said pre-determined amount;
(f) repeating steps (b) to (e) if it is determined that said TPS and said ART increased with said load increase; and
(g) terminating said load testing if it is determined that said ART increased but not said TPS with said load increase, thereby determining said full capacity of said web application.
2. The computer based method of
3. The computer based method of
4. The computer based method of
This invention relates to the simulation of loading a web application and, more particularly, to the simulation of a loading of a web application by clients accessing the web application.
Communication of data from a central repository of data such as an Internet or Intranet to numerous persons referred to as clients is accomplished by use of a web application interconnected via a communication system to the clients. The specific resource requirements upon the web application for processing a client's request for data depend on the nature of the data requested by the client, and, therefore, the loading of the web application by the client varies upon the clients. The total load on the web application increases with the number of clients accessing the web application and, with a large number of clients, may exceed the operating capacity of the web application in terms of meeting a/many performance goal/s. Such performance goals may be measured in terms of transactions per second (TPS), average response time, number of clients being served, CPU utilization or other.
To provide good service to the clients by the web application, there is a need to know the capacity of the web application in terms of the number of clients which can be served and/or how close the web application is to its capacity limit. To conduct such an analysis of a web application, equipment known as load generators have been developed to simulate the load generated by clients upon the web application. To simulate a large number of clients, there is employed a load generation system wherein one or more computers function as load generators to simulate the multiplicity of clients, such as personal computers, which may access the web application.
Presently available web application testing does not adequately address the foregoing need for knowledge of the web application capacity.
The foregoing need is met and other advantages are provided, in accordance with the invention, by a procedure of monitoring the performance of the web application while adapting the load generation for testing the web application performance. The invention provides for an increasing of the load upon the web application, while monitoring the transactions per second (TPS), this being followed by a further increase in the loading with a monitoring of the response time. During this procedure, there is a checking of whether the web application has reached a determined performance goal. If the performance goal is attained, the procedure terminates because no further performance is anticipated. The procedure also involves steps performed to determine whether a load generator, used in the loading of the web application, has reached its limit.
It is advantageous to designate a single client machine, to be referred to as a probing client, to simulate a single client obtaining of data from the web application. The monitoring of the performance characteristics of the web application by the probing client serves as an accurate measure of the web application performance.
In the simulation of the load imposed by simulated client, there is a creation of a test script that defines the behavior of the simulated clients. A user of the load generation system can set in advance the number of simulated clients for each load generator in order to determine the load size. The load size and its distribution on the load generators can be set to different values for different periods of the test.
The logic for interpreting the measurements is as follows. If the load size on a given load generator has increased, and its TPS remains steady, then there are two possibilities. The first possibility is that the load generator has reached its full capacity, and therefore the load increase actually interferes with the operation of the load generator. As a second possibility, the application being tested (ABT) has reached its full capacity and cannot produce more TPS. In order to determine which of these possibilities has occurred, two indicators are used.
The first indicator is the measurement of the response time, as taken from the probing client. If the response time does not change in value upon an increase in the load, this is understood to indicate that the ABT has not experienced a change in load size. Because, otherwise, the TPS would also have increased. Thus, the load generator is operating at full capacity. If the response time increases as the load increases, this is understood to mean that the ABT is unable to process more requests and, therefore, any further increase in the load size will affect the time, namely the response time, which is required to complete each request. A further indicator is found in the act of increasing the load on a different one of the load generators. If the TPS experiences an increase, this means that the ABT has successfully processed the additional request and, therefore, the first of the load generators has reached its full capacity and, accordingly, is not able to produce additional effective requests.
Central Console
The central console delivers centralized management of all testing functions including selecting and defining test sessions, developing test scripts, scheduling test sessions and graphically and statistically monitoring results.
The Central Console
Configures test sessions.
Schedules test session scripts for simulated clients and probing clients.
Monitors the application's performance under the generated load.
Manages the test session as it is running
Displays the performance of the ABT
ABT (Application Being Tested)
The web application being tested
Load Generator
An entity that generates simulated clients. Load generators have the task of bombarding the application being tested with HTTP protocol call requests as defined in the scripts. The number of simulated clients at any given moment is determined by the user-defined session.
Load Generator Machine
The machine that hosts and runs one or multiple load generators. Load generator machines are not limited to running a single load generator.
Probing Client
An entity that simulates only one client at any time. A probing client can run at the same time as loading testing. Probing clients are used to obtain performance measurements that can be more exact than a load generator machine running many simulated clients.
Probing Client Machine
A machine that hosts and runs a probing client. Probing client machines typically only run and host a single probing client.
Simulated Clients
Entities generated by load generators and probing clients. Each such entity is a simulation of a client accessing the application being tested (ABT).
Persons or entities which access a website via a browser or equivalent.
TPS (Transactions Per Second)
The number of HTTP transactions (such as a Get or Post) submitted by a clients to the ABT in a defined time period, divided by the number of seconds in the time period.
ART (Application Response Time)
The time (in seconds) required for the ABT to respond to a request sent by a client, simulated client or probing client).
The aforementioned aspects and other features of the invention are explained in the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing figures wherein:
FIG. 1 is a stylized view of a test system for conducting the procedure of the invention; and
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the procedure of the invention.
Identically labeled elements appearing in different ones of the figures refer to the same element but may not be referenced in the description for all figures.
In FIG. 1, a web application load testing system 10 comprises a plurality of load generators 12 which simulate the loading of clients, the load generators 12 applying loads to a web application 14. Loading of the web application 14 is also provided by a probing client 16. The performance of the web application in handling requests of the load generators 12 and of the probing client 16 are evaluated by a Central Console 18. The system 10 is operated in accordance with the procedure of the invention, as will be described hereinafter with reference to FIG. 2, to establish the capacity of the web application to process data requests of numerous clients serviced via the web.
In establishing the capacity of the web application, a question arises in the use of the load generation system 10 as to how many simulated clients can be run on each of the load generators 12. By way of example, one may decide, theoretically, to run 10,000 such clients on a single machine, however the machine may not perform the task adequately because each client consumes an amount of system resources, which resources are limited. Even if one could calculate in advance how many resources each simulated client would consume, the capacity of the load generator 12 could not be determined simply by dividing the system resources by the number of the clients. This is because modem operating systems allow processes to compete over resources. Accordingly, there is need to find out how many simulated clients can be run on a given machine while utilizing its full capacity of resources, without interference among the responses to the respective clients.
A further consideration in the implementation of the invention is the capacity of the web application, namely, how many clients can access the web application until the web application reaches a predefined limit or performance goal (in terms of response time or other performance metrics). The load generation system 10 addresses these considerations by implementation of the procedure of the invention wherein the loading of the number of clients is simulated by the load generators without requiring a generator to exceed its capacity. In addition, the procedure of the invention provides for detecting the point wherein the ABT reaches its full capacity. By use of these procedural steps, in accordance with the invention, the adaptive load generation frees a user of the system 10 from the burden of conducting the simulation.
The adaptive load generation procedure makes use of an existing web loading program, such as a product known as "WebLoad" (available from RadView Software, Inc., Lexington, Mass.), for the stress testing of applications. The WebLoad product employs the elements shown in FIG. 1, namely, the load generator 12, the Central Console 18, and the probing client 16. The load generator 12 is a multithreaded application that is able to simulate the behavior of multiple clients. Each simulated client is implemented as a separate thread, generating HTTP request according to a predefined set of instructions called a "test script".
Several measurements of a web application's performance are taken while each thread, of each of the respective clients, is running. Such measurements may include response time and throughput rate. These measurements are collected from all threads and packed together to a statistics report. Several other measurements are calculated based on the work of all threads, such as the number of successful TPS, and are added to the other measurements in the statistics report. The compilation of data and generation of such reports is well known. These reports are sent to the Central Console 18 every several seconds (as determined by the user), achieving a real-time reporting of the performance of the web application.
The probing client 16 shares the same functionality as one load generator 12, but implements only one simulated client. The measurements taken from the probing client 16 are more accurate than those of the load generators 12 because there is only one probing client per Probing Client machine, and the resources of the machine are devoted to this simulated client.
Also, in each of the load generators 12, the measurements sent are the averages of the measurements taken from all the simulated clients running on a Load Generator machine. In the manner of one of the load generators 12, the machine of the probing client 16 reports every several seconds to the Central Console 18. The Central Console 18 acts as a main control point for the load generators 12 and the probing client 16, wherein it is set forth how many load generators 12 and how many simulated clients may be activated in any given time during a test session. The Central Console 18 is able to start and to stop each of the load generators 12, and to change the number of simulated clients during a running of the load generators 12. The monitor 18 also collects the statistics reports sent from the load generators 12 and from the probing client, and stores the reports in a statistics database for reporting and for analysis. The ability of the system 10 to change the load size dynamically during a test session, and also the fact that the results are received in real time during the test, are an important feature of the performance measurement procedure with the adaptive load generation system 10.
With reference to FIG. 2, the procedure 20 for operation of the system 10 in accordance with the invention is depicted as a set of procedural steps represented by blocks in the diagram. The procedure begins at 22 after which there is initialization of the load generators and an activating of the probing client, as shown at block 24. At block 26, a load generator is selected from a list of available generators 12 (FIG. 1). The TPS generated from the selected generator, together with the corresponding response time measured on the probing client 16, are recorded and stored as shown at block 28.
Then, at block 30, the load size is increased for the generator by the generator by a predefined amount. At this point, at block 32, a decision is made as to whether the performance goal of the web application has been reached. In the event that the performance goal has been reached, then it is understood there is no further performance to be gained from the web application, and the procedure is stopped at 34. In the event that the performance goal of the web application has not been reached, the procedure advances to block 36. Therein, after a delay which allows the generator 10 to complete the load increase, and the Central Console to collect a fresh statistics report from the generator and the probing client, the TPS is compared to the value of TPS which was stored previously prior to the step of the operation.
If the TPS has increased, this is an indication that the increase in load size has increased also the effective load on the ABT. Therefore, one can continue using the present load generator. Accordingly, the procedure reverts back to block 26 wherein the load generator is selected, and thereafter the procedure continues into block 28. If there has been no increase in the TPS, then the procedure advances to block 38 which provides for a measurement of the response time of the web application in response to a request by the probing client 16.
If the measurement of response time indicates an increase in the response time, then the procedure advances to block 40 wherein it is concluded that the increase in response time is due to the fact that the ABT can not respond to more requests without interfering with the processing of requests of other clients machines. Thus, the ABT is considered to have reached its full capacity. At this point in the procedure, a further check is made at block 42 to determine if the performance goal of the web application has been reached. If the performance goal of the web application has been reached, then the procedure terminates at 44. On the other hand, if the performance goal of the web application has not been reached, then the procedure reverts to block 28 in which further measurements are employed to verify whether or not the ABT has, in fact, reached its full capacity.
In the event that the measurement of response time, at block 38, does not show an increase in the response time, the procedure advances to block 46 where it is concluded that the assumed increasing of loading of the web application by the load generator 10 has, in fact, not occurred because the generator is, apparently, in its state of full capacity. Thus, there has, in fact, been no effective load change. Accordingly, at block 46, the load size generated by the load generator 10 is decreased back to the point where the generator was effective. This generator is then removed from the list of generators available for incrementing the load size.
Thereupon, at block 48, a determination is made as to whether the list of available load generators 12 is empty. In the event that the answer is affirmative, that there are no more load generators available, at block 50, then the procedure terminates at 52 because the maximum amount of loading of the web application 14 by the system 10 has been done. The system 10 has reached its full ability to generate load, and the test is completed. However, at block 48, in the event that the list is not empty, there is at least one more load generator 12 available for loading the web application 14. Then the procedure reverts back to block 26 wherein a further one of the load generators 12 is selected for loading the web application 14.
The procedure advances through blocks 28 and 30 for further loading and measurement of the results of the loading. With respect to block 40, it is noted that one criteria for determining that the ABT is in a state of full capacity is that the response time exceeds three seconds, by way of example. Thus, following block 42, even though the ABT is considered to be in its full state of capacity based on the response time of three seconds, one can still continue with the test to determine the web application performance for a response time of four seconds, by way of example.
The foregoing procedure wherein the adaptive load generation provides for a constant monitoring of a web application during an increasing of the load size effects not only the web application but also the load generators and the communication layer that connects the web application to the load generators. In summarizing the foregoing procedure, it is noted that the adaptive mode generation enables a decision to be made when a given load generator has reached its full capacity, followed by a continuing of the test procedure with another one of the load generators. The foregoing monitoring procedure also enables one to determine that the ABT has reached its full capacity in accordance with a specific criteria such as TPS, response time or CPU (Central processing unit) utilization, by way of example. The monitoring information can be collected from the load generators, the ABT, and also from the probing claim 16 for which the probing client machine initiates a single client accessing the web application.
In view of the foregoing description of the process of the invention, it is apparent that the adaptive load generation enables a user of the system of FIG. 1 to determine automatically the status of the system, and thereby maximize utility of the web application in responding to requests of client machines.
It is to be understood that the above described embodiment of the invention is illustrative only, and that modifications thereof may occur to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, this invention is not to be regarded as limited to the embodiment disclosed herein, but is to be limited only as defined by the appended claims.
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