[Tsung] Generating over 32k clients from a single machine

[Nicolas Niclausse]

Vinod Panicker ecrivait le 27.02.2008 12:13:
> OK so the multiple IP thing wasn't really working out (though I
> thought so).  A netstat dump showed that tsung was using just a single
> IP address to generate the load.
> According to the configuration though, it was *not* supposed to use
> that IP address.  Seems like I've stumbled across a bug.  I'm using
> tsung revision 722 from svn (since the latest available one was giving
> errors that were reported already by someone on the list)

what kind of errors ?

> In summary, tsung is configured to use 4 clients, all of which are
> hostnames mapping to individual IP's of the client machine. The client
> machine has 2 NIC's, each of which is assigned 2 IP addresses.  Tsung
> ends up using just one of those IP addresses to generate load and
> eventually runs out of available client ports after 65k connections.

Weird. Can you show your xml config (clients part) and output of ifconfig 
on your clients ?


-- 
Nicolas