Which tests, exactly, are you needing staggered? If it is an external test (which you implied) then simply code the delay into your script. divide the number of hosts by 300 seconds and sleep for that many seconds between tests or something. (leaving time for the actual test in there as well...)

Stewart

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:41 PM, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com> wrote:

I was wondering if there was a way to stager

the Hobbit clients. I use a NFS mount with

/home/hobbit for the client on each system.

So, if I have my own test, they all kick-off about

the same time.

I'd prefer them to stager during the 5 minutes.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks….James

-- Stewart

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could you start the client at different intervals on your systems - say start 20% of them, wait one minute, start the next 20% so on and so on?

On 10/03/2008, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com> wrote:

I was wondering if there was a way to stager

the Hobbit clients. I use a NFS mount with

/home/hobbit for the client on each system.

So, if I have my own test, they all kick-off about

the same time.

I'd prefer them to stager during the 5 minutes.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks….James

-- Iain Miller iainonthemove at gmail.com