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Re: [pcp] Use docker for stress testing pcp?

To: William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] Use docker for stress testing pcp?
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 20:16:34 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx, Jeremy Eder <jeder@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Hey Will,

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> Thursday evening I went to the a docker meetup session in Raleigh
> (http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Raleigh/events/196434612/) where Jeremy Eder
> talked about performance measurement and tuning for docker.  He mentioned
> using PCP in his slides
> (http://slides.com/jeremyeder/docker-performance-analysis#/).  He also

I'm getting a 404 there, but found this via the meetup link:
http://redhat.slides.com/jeremyeder/performance-analysis-of-docker

> talked about using docker was being used to test scaling of Red Hat
> Satellite/RHN.  Docker was being used to provide a large number of clients
> with lower overhead than using traditional KVM guests to stress test the the
> server code. This approach could be useful for testing PCP to ensure that
> PCP works well when monitoring large collections of machines.

*nod* - great idea!

cheers.

--
Nathan

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