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on 11/8/00 8:37 AM, Deaton, Larry at email@hidden wrote:
> 1.Rtspam is unable to open multiple files. For instance I have created
> hundreds of files called rtspam.mov, rtspam.mov.1,
> rtspam.mov.2,.................. Then, I invoke the command rtspam -n x -f x
> on one client machine and it opens files rtspam.mov - rtspam.mov.x
> correctly. However, I would like to be able to go to the next client
> machine and have it start opening movie files at rtspam.mov.x+1. I have not
> found a way to get Rtspam to do this.
Yes this is true. If you depend on this feature, you should use spampro.
> 2. SpamPro WILL open multiple files through the .conf file, however,
> reporting with Spampro seems very unreliable. If I open 200 spampro
> sessions on one machine and 200 on another I should have 400 rtsp
> connections. When I access the admin tool of DSS it will show anywhere
> between 250 -450. I'm not sure why it is not reflective of what my clients
> are doing. Usually these nomilies appear at higher numbers. I'm wondering
> if it counts failed attempts as live connections. This makes it very
> difficult to perform any reliable benchmarking stress tests.
I have found that SpamPro is very accurate in its reporting and the #s of
clients are always correct. I suspect there is something about your conf
file that is causing this. Perhaps you could send it to me?
> By the way, I have not been able to find ANY documentation on either tool.
> Is documentation available for either tool? If so, where can I find it.
Both tools are undocumented. The sample conf file provided with spampro
explains each configuration option.
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Denis Serenyi
QuickTime Streaming Server Engineering
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