[10878] in Athena Bugs
Re: CAP problems...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dryfoo@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 2 16:03:40 1993
From: dryfoo@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: athena-ws@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern), basch@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 02 Sep 93 15:21:27 -0400.
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 16:02:51 EDT
} From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
} To: athena-ws@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
} Suggestion:
}
} Next time some TLA is named in a message to a wide audience like
} athena-ws, include some explanation of WHAT THE THING IS.
Bill,
CAP is a Chaotic Asynchonous Process -- it's a package that runs on
special designated servers and mimics random users doing random things,
including:
-- it creates (from a random sampling of mail, using dissociated
press) and forwards electronic chain mail,
-- it plays lots of xtrek and tetris,
-- it generates most of the postings to white-magic,
-- it answers netnews inappropriately (quoting long msgs and
adding one line at the end, sending used furniture For Sale
announcements world-wide,)
-- it asks dumb olc questions and then logs off
-- it reposts that "Student Bloopers" essay to a different
digest or group every day,
-- it occasionally sends public workstations a signal to
abruptly turn off their power with first doing a shutdown
-- it attaches dozens and dozens of different lockers, does
a complete recursive ls on them, and sends the output to
president@whitehouse.gov
We use it over the summer to simulate the student load while
evaulating/debugging new releases. (We haven't figured out a way for it
to put crumbs into keyboards yet).
Hope that helps.
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