Forum OpenACS Q&A: Load testers?

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1: Load testers?
Posted by Daryl Biberdorf on 01/05/02 05:06 AM
What products do folks here like to use to load test web applications?
What do you like or not like?
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2: Response to Load testers? (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 01/05/02 06:58 AM
We're working towards our own tool.  This is not an answer, only a recognition of the need.... any work in this direction will be driven by the test package.  While at the bottom it is a framework for providing "it works or doesn't" boolean value the long-term notion is to be able to simulate meaningful traffic loads as well.

So far I think most folks use Apache bench.  Simplistic but good for gross-level scalability stuff.

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Posted by Bjorn Thor Jonsson on 01/05/02 05:37 PM

JMeter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html saved one of my days when I was trying to find a bug that only creeped up when the web app had been in use for some time (the app is not based on AOLserver-OpenACS). I found that JMeter starts to overflow memory after some running time and needs to be restarted, but still it was adequate for me.

Just recently I saw a reference to Web Application Stress tool http://webtool.rte.microsoft.com, I haven't tried it but the info on the website impressed me. Though it's designed for MS based web solutions, it seems that it's ability to simulate many users carrying their cookie data can be useful for any personalized web site.