Reports

The output of a Flight Simulator session will be a file called load.log.

Example 2-1. load.log

threads requests time transfer-rate
1 90 4236 131691
2 180 4016 127438
3 540 4616 116062
4 810 6219 106140
5 1350 8923 88011
6 1440 12197 85094
7 2520 14291 65093
8 3240 13339 59263
9 4050 15843 53958
10 4950 19258 48998

File format

threads

The number of concurrent threads making requests to the server.

requests

The number of requests made to the server.

time

The total time to complete all the requests.

transfer-rate

The average transfer rate in bytes per second (for responses that returned data).

You can produce reports based on this data using applications such as gnuplot or Microsoft Excel.

The following graphs where generated with Microsoft Excel from a data set with 40 rounds.

Bytes/Second vs. Threads

Graph of Bytes per Second against Number of Threads

Requests/Second vs. Threads

Graph of Requests per Second against Number of Threads