How do you stress test a TGE port? Can it be done with bots?

Hi everyone,

After a few dormant weeks, I can say I'm OK with the reliability of the Torque Engine port under Solaris/Sparc. I'd like to put it under some stress in order to: 1) See how stable it is and 2) See how it scales. The trouble I have is that I don't currently have access to a Solaris 8 /Sparc server on the net (where I could ask other players to connect to it). Therefore, I'd like to start a dedicated server on a Solaris box here and add bots in order to stress-test it.

Would that be representative enough? Would it reproduce more-or-less a real-world load? I'd be planning to do something along the lines of:

1)

./torqueDemo.bin -dedicated -mission fps/data/,.....test1.mis
% $player = new AIPlayer() { dataBlock = LightMaleHumanArmor; aiPlayer = true; };
% AIPlayer::spawnPlayer();

or:
2)

./torqueDemo.bin -dedicated -mission fps/data/,.....test1.mis
% $newbot = AIPlayer::spawnPlayer();
% $newbot.setShapeName( "BadGuy No." @ (%x + 1));
% $weapon = new Item(){ dataBlock = Rifle; };
% $ammo = new Item(){ dataBlock = RifleAmmo; };
% MissionCleanup.add(%weapon);
% MissionCleanup.add(%ammo);
% $newbot.pickup($weapon,1);
% $newbot.pickup($ammo,2);
% $newbot.use(Rifle);
% MissionCleanup.add($newbot);

What do you guys think? Would that give a good idea of the scalability of Torque on that platform? I must admit I'd like to see how many bots it takes to reach 100% cpu on one of our SunFire F6800 servers (24 1200Mhz cpu's with 8MB L2 cache each, 48Gb RAM min...).

Thanks for reading.

Vincent