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Use docker for stress testing pcp?

To: pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx, Jeremy Eder <jeder@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Use docker for stress testing pcp?
From: William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:02:51 -0400
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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 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.

-Will

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