ChangeLogTag:Mon Jan 28 12:39:50 2002 Carlos O'Ryan <coryan@uci.edu>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/TAO/orbsvcs/tests/EC_Throughput/README b/TAO/orbsvcs/tests/EC_Throughput/README
index d3a539cb14d..1ff4896f5c9 100644
--- a/TAO/orbsvcs/tests/EC_Throughput/README
+++ b/TAO/orbsvcs/tests/EC_Throughput/README
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 # $Id$
 
-	This test tries to stress the Event_Service by sending events
-in bursts, the user can control the size of the events, the size of
-the burst, the number of bursts and the time between the bursts, the
-number of suppliers and the number of consumers.
+	This test can be used to measure the performance of TAO's
+Real-time Event Service.  The test can be configured to change:
+
+1) The number of suppliers connected to the event service.
+2) The number of consumers connected to the event service.
+3) The types of events generated by the suppliers and the consumer
+   subscriptions.
+4) The event payload size.
+5) The number of events generated.
+6) Events are sent in "burst", i.e. a number of events is
+   generated without any pacing, the user can prescribe the number of
+   events in each burst as well as the period between bursts.
 
         There are two versions of the test, a collocated version,
 contained in the ECT_Throughput executable.  The non-collocated
@@ -11,7 +19,6 @@ version uses the event channel executable in the ../../Event_Service
 direction, and two local binaries (ECT_Consumer and
 ECT_Supplier).  Both versions require a Naming Service.
 
-
 	To run the test you can use (as usual) the run_test.pl script
 on this directory.  If you want to manually run the tests here are
 some examples, usually each one of the commands below is executed on