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Questions tagged [load-testing]

The load-testing tag is for issues relating to the setting up or running of load tests.

Load testing is end-to-end performance testing under anticipated production load, which determine response times for various time critical transactions and business processes.

As per wikipedia:

Load testing is the process of putting demand on a system or device and measuring its response.

Load testing is performed to determine a system’s behavior under both normal and anticipated peak load conditions. It helps to identify the maximum operating capacity of an application as well as any bottlenecks and determine which element is causing degradation.

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Do routers and networks have have a “max threads” configuration?

I've been stress testing my application now and I've identified a high average network connection time. This is odd because I haven't gone over the max bandwith at all. What can this be caused by? Have I gone over the "max thread limit" on the…
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How to artificially open many tcp connection on a host (testing)?

I'm trying to build a test setup which test my server's performance under high load. In order to do that I want to open thousands of tcp connection. The problem is that I only have two hosts, one is for the server and the other is for the load…
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What hardware factors may be considered bottlenecks on a Hyper-V virtual server during load testing?

Our organization is load testing our application using virtual servers via Hyper-V to see what the user load can be using fair equipment on a single box setup. The developer group questioned the validity of the tests given the normal use of the box…
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