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                      JOURNAL FOR TUESDAY 8TH MAY, 2012
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SUBJECT: Millions of bots later...
   DATE: Tue May  8 21:16:27 BST 2012

After spending a lot of my bank holiday weekend and sometime this evening
working on the network code - and throwing millions of my little bots at the
server - I think things are more stable. Resources are being deallocated, idle
timeouts are working and to some extent DOS prevention is working.

At the moment I have a little test script called 'robot' that takes 2
parameters. '-n' is the number of bots to run and '-t' is the number of
minutes to run for. As I'm still using the four test rooms[1] running the
following is interesting if you also login using telnet:


  ./robot -n 100 -t 10


Each bot will run around in a square executing 'S,E,N,W' at random speeds with
random pauses and randomly dump it's connection, reconnect and start again.

Going to leave it running overnight with:


  ./robot -n10 -t 600


Fingers crossed!

--
Diddymus

  [1] April 27th journal entry: ../4/27.html


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