Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations

2013-10-23 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 10/1/13 3:03 AM, Kevin Butler wrote: > Hi Karsten, Sathya, > > Hope you've both had great weekends, please see inline! Hi Kevin, apologies for not replying earlier! Finally, replying now. >> Want to help define the remaining data formats? I think we need these >> formats: >> >> - file_uplo

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations

2013-09-30 Thread Kevin Butler
Hi Karsten, Sathya, Hope you've both had great weekends, please see inline! > Want to help define the remaining data formats? I think we need these > formats: > > - file_upload would be quite similar to file_download, but for the GET > POST performance experiment. Or maybe we can generalize fi

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations

2013-09-26 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 9/25/13 10:30 PM, Kevin wrote: > Hi Karsten, Sathya, > > Sorry for the delayed response, been having connection issues all week > on anything other than a phone ~_~. I've included updates from Sathya's > later mails below also with additional comments added. > >> I don't see how we could make

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations

2013-09-25 Thread Kevin
Hi Karsten, Sathya, Sorry for the delayed response, been having connection issues all week on anything other than a phone ~_~. I've included updates from Sathya's later mails below also with additional comments added. > I don't see how we could make new experiments language agnostic. These > new

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations

2013-09-24 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 9/24/13 1:39 PM, Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Karsten Loesing > wrote: >> On 9/23/13 12:53 AM, Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran wrote: >>> >>> I don't understand how this will work when users just apt-get install >>> torperf. Ideally if someone writ

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations (was: Torperf)

2013-09-24 Thread Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran
Hi. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 9/23/13 12:53 AM, Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran wrote: >> >> I don't understand how this will work when users just apt-get install >> torperf. Ideally if someone writes a good experiment, they should send >> the patches upstream and g

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations (was: Torperf)

2013-09-24 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 9/23/13 12:53 AM, Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran wrote: > Hi, > > I have some comments on the updated pdf - Thanks! Much appreciated! >> It should be easy for a user to implement or install an experiment that >> isn’t bundled with the core distribution. Ideally, installing an experiment >> sh

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations (was: Torperf)

2013-09-22 Thread Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran
Hi, I have some comments on the updated pdf - > It should be easy for a user to implement or install an experiment that isn’t > bundled with the core distribution. Ideally, installing an experiment should > be as simple as unzipping a folder or config file into an experiments folder. I don't u

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations (was: Torperf)

2013-09-18 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 9/18/13 3:49 AM, Kevin Butler wrote: >> Executing scripts and reading stdout/stderr is probably too low-level. >> I think we need a Python/Twisted (or whatever language Torperf will be >> written in) interface for running an experiment and retrieving results. > > You're probably right on stdout/

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations (was: Torperf)

2013-09-17 Thread Kevin Butler
> Executing scripts and reading stdout/stderr is probably too low-level. > I think we need a Python/Twisted (or whatever language Torperf will be > written in) interface for running an experiment and retrieving results. > > You're probably right on stdout/err being too low level, but most experimen

Re: [tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations (was: Torperf)

2013-09-17 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 9/17/13 3:33 AM, Kevin Butler wrote: > [cc tor-dev] > > On 16 September 2013 09:47, Karsten Loesing wrote: > >> Hmm, I don't think the HTTP client/server part is the right interface to >> write another client and server and call it Torperf compatible. The >> Torperf data API would be a bette

[tor-dev] Torperf implementation considerations (was: Torperf)

2013-09-16 Thread Kevin Butler
[cc tor-dev] On 16 September 2013 09:47, Karsten Loesing wrote: > Hmm, I don't think the HTTP client/server part is the right interface to > write another client and server and call it Torperf compatible. The > Torperf data API would be a better interface for that: people could > write their ow