nikmmy / rpc-based-proxy-server

The server code was automatically generated from the thrift file(example_thrift_file.thrift) by using the command:

                            thrift --gen cpp example_thrift_file.thrift

The server code is there in a file called “Something_server.cpp” and the client code in a file called “Something_client.cpp”. All the server code as well as the caching code is in the same file. The cache replacement algorithms have been implemented as three separate functions in the same file: fifo(), MAXS() and random() respectively.

To run a particular algorithm, we comment out the function calls corresponding to the other two algorithms. Also, the cache size has been defined by the pre-processor directive

                            #define MAXSIZE 128*1024

and can be changed to increase or decrease the cache size.

1. To build the code, from the gen-cpp folder, simply run:

                             make 
   

This should create the server and client executables.

2. To start the server, run the command:

                            ./something_server
   

3. To start the client, run the command:

                            ./something_client
   

The client read URLs from a file called “URLs.txt” line by line and then sends the requests one by one to the server. All changes in workloads need to be made to this file.