server wrote:What is the fastest rate one machine can run monitoring tests...
If you have a "one track" sequence, and the test you are running nominally takes 60 seconds then you could run as many as 60 tests per hour.
If you have two tests that don't interfere with each other and are both "desktop safe" (they run minimized, i.e. don't need the desktop ro execute), then you could run them in parallel...so that could be 120 per hour.
And so forth, up the machine capacity.
But this approach doesn't allow for tests that run longer than the nominal time but are still OK. So what is smart to do is to put a safety interval after every test, so that the end of one test doesn't interfere with the other.
So, trying to sum this up, if you have a nominal 1-minute test and you set your machine up for 10 parallel "tracks" then with a 50% safety factor you can run about 300 tests per hour -- 30 per track per hour.
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by server » Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:41 pm