<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 13, 2007, at 7:24 , Cal Heldenbrand wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Thanks for all the info! Do you think you could give me a small snippet of that mcsets file you generated? I've only scanned over the protocol a bit, but I'd like to do a few tests in my environment too. I didn't think I could use netcat directly on the server, that's pretty cool. :-)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>This is how I generated them:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>#!/usr/bin/env python</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>import sys</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>for i in range(int(sys.argv[1])):</DIV><DIV> sys.stdout.write("set k%s 0 300 26\r\n%s\r\n" % (i, "x" * 26))</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Notice the CR is important, so this won't necessarily paste well (ff=dos in vim will probably do it):</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>set k0 0 300 26</DIV><DIV>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</DIV><DIV>set k1 0 300 26</DIV><DIV>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</DIV><DIV>set k2 0 300 26</DIV><DIV>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I sent the output of nc to /dev/null, but you could also stream it through grep looking for errors. Checking the stats and spot checking was fine for me since I really just wanted to know how fast it *could* load them (on my machine, anyway).</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Dustin Sallings</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>