This implements the Open Web Application synchronization protocol. The client is implemented in the main openwebapps repository.
To run the server in a configuration that is fairly equivalent to the https://myapps.mozillalabs.com setup, use:
$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps.git
$ export OPENWEBAPPS=$(pwd)/openwebapps
$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/apps.mozillalabs.com.git
$ export APPS=$(pwd)/apps.mozillalabs.com
$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/appsync.git
$ cd appsync
$ pip -E test-env install -r prod-reqs.txt
$ ./test-env/bin/paster serve etc/appsync-dev.ini -n myapps --reloadNow you can load http://localhost:5000/ to get the dashboard, and to get some apps to install go to http://localhost:5000/apps/appdir/
You may want to change [storage] in etc/appsync-dev.ini to use a SQLite database (there are comments in that file to show how).
To perform a stress test on the server, install Funkload:
$ pip -E test-env install FunkloadThen run the Appsync server:
$ ./test-env/bin/paster serve etc/appsync-dev.ini --daemonAnd verify the server is properly set by running a single test:
$ make loadonce
cd loadtest; ../bin/fl-run-test simple.py
.
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Ran 1 test in 2.742s
OKYou can now run a full stress test:
$ make load
Benching
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* setUpBench hook: ... done.
Cycle #0 with 5 virtual users
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* setUpCycle hook: ... done.
* Current time: 2011-12-05T14:47:14.737983
* Starting threads: ..... done.
* Logging for 30s (until 2011-12-05T14:47:44.796607): ........
...You can configure the load test with a few options:
- HOST: the AppSync Server the test is run against (default: http://localhost:5000)
- DURATION: the duration of a cycle in seconds (default: 30)
- CYCLES: cycles to run. Number of virtual users to run per cycle, separated by columns. (default: 5:10:20)
Let's run 50, 100, then 200 users for a duration of 1 minute on the myapps.example.com :
$ make load HOST=http://myapps.example.com DURATION=60 CYCLES=50:100:200To slow down the clients requests, you can set up a special value in Memcache that will add a X-Sync-Poll header to all GETs' responses.
The appsync-backoff script is provided for this:
$ appsync-backoff get
The Backoff is currently set to 10 seconds.
$ appsync-backoff set 20
Backoff set to 20 seconds.
$ appsync-backoff del
Backoff removed
$ appsync-backoff get
No Backoff has been set in Memcached
$ appsync-backoff -m 127.0.0.1 get
No Backoff has been set in Memcached