[thelist] Stress-testing a web server

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Tue Apr 9 06:06:00 CDT 2002


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hi Stef

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=performance+testing+tools&hl=en&meta=
in particular
http://www-heva.mercuryinteractive.com/products/loadrunner/

You're right - they do simulate high traffic loads, but they also report
back
on what they find, including maximum number of simultaneous and daily
users your system will support. Diagram to explain:
http://www-heva.mercuryinteractive.com/gfx/products/loadrunner/how_load_runner_works.gif

Cheers
Martin



We're at the moment migrating an intranet site from one server to the
other.
Before making the final jump, I'd really love to know if the server can
handle the stress.

Anyone knows of tools to test a server? I don't imagine that all one can do
is put up a false internal DDoS attack ;-)

Maybe something like a software that would make a hundred queries at the
same time...



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