Set up sessions count for testing HA Proxy limits

[ep4sh]

Dear community,
please guide me how to set up sessions count via Locust to test my LoadBalancer limitations. I'm using HA Proxy as lb with user session limits:

• https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-runtime-api/reference/set-rate-limit-sessions-global/

I've already tried to apply number of workers:
https://docs.locust.io/en/stable/running-distributed.html#expect-workers-number-of-workers

But the only thing I've got is an RPS increased.

Thanks!

[cyberw]

Hi!

Not 100% sure what is the question :)

Do you want to increase the number of sessions until LB starts throwing old sessions out?

Probably you just need to increase the number of Users / ramp up speed further. Maybe clear cookies between each task iteration? https://docs.locust.io/en/stable/faq.html#clear-cookies-to-make-the-next-task-iteration-seem-like-a-new-user-to-my-system-under-test

[ep4sh]

Hi @cyberw, right, I want to increase the sessions count, apologize for confusion, and I didn't find how to apply it correctly (always getting 5 sessions).

[cyberw]

You get 5 sessions, using how many users? And what does your locustfile look like?