In the HTTP session replication failover tests (REPL cache modes), the distribution of sessions around the cluster starts out even:
2012/06/12 16:42:52:408 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - perf18: Sessions: 2000, active: 500, samples: 1247, throughput 124.7 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 1 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 1247 (100%) 2012/06/12 16:42:52:409 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - perf19: Sessions: 2000, active: 500, samples: 1244, throughput 124.4 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 1 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 1244 (100%) 2012/06/12 16:42:52:409 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - perf20: Sessions: 2000, active: 500, samples: 1242, throughput 124.2 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 1 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 1242 (100%) 2012/06/12 16:42:52:409 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - perf21: Sessions: 2000, active: 500, samples: 1240, throughput 124.0 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 1 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 1240 (100%)
but then becomes extremely unbalanced after dealing with successive failures:
2012/06/12 16:52:12:475 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - UNKNOWN: Sessions: 2000, active: 0, samples: 0, throughput 0.0 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 0 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 0 (0%) 2012/06/12 16:52:12:475 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - perf18: Sessions: 2000, active: 0, samples: 0, throughput 0.0 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 0 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 0 (0%) 2012/06/12 16:52:12:475 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - perf19: Sessions: 2000, active: 2000, samples: 4979, throughput 497.9 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 19 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 4, valid samples: 4975 (99%) 2012/06/12 16:52:12:475 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - perf20: Sessions: 2000, active: 0, samples: 0, throughput 0.0 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 0 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 0 (0%) 2012/06/12 16:52:12:475 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - perf21: Sessions: 2000, active: 0, samples: 0, throughput 0.0 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 0 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 0 (0%) 2012/06/12 16:52:22:475 EDT [INFO ][StatsRunner] HOST perf17.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:rootProcess:c - Total: Sessions: 2000, active: 1996, samples: 4701, throughput 470.1 samples/s, 0.0 MB/s, mean response: 8 ms, sampling errors: 0, invalid samples: 0, valid samples: 4701 (100%)