mailbox

A program which stress tests Pony's mailbox system.

How to Compile

With a minimal Pony installation, in the same directory as this README file run ponyc. You should see content building the necessary packages, which ends with:

console

...
Generating
 Reachability
 Selector painting
 Data prototypes
 Data types
 Function prototypes
 Functions
 Descriptors
Optimising
Writing ./mailbox.o
Linking ./mailbox

How to Run

Once mailbox has been compiled, in the same directory as this README file run ./mailbox. You should the usage statement showing that the program requires positional arguments.

console

$ ./mailbox
mailbox OPTIONS
  N   number of sending actors
  M   number of messages to pass from each sender to the receiver

If we instead run this program with positional arguments we will see no output, but it will take time to run.

console

./mailbox 100 1000000

Try setting both positional arguments high enough that you have time to observe how memory usage changes while the program is running.

Program Modifications

Modify the program to respond to every 1000 "pongs" by telling the user the current number of "pongs" processed.

console

$ ./mailbox 100 1000000
Processed 1000 pongs so far.
Processed 2000 pongs so far.
...
Processed 100000000 pongs so far.