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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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How many people can a normal laptop server serve?

I'm just trying to play around with my laptop by hosting a small WordPress blog on that. I wonder how many people it can serve at once. About the network, I've tested on Speedtest.net and got this…
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How Do I Analyse Results of Load Testing to Determine Hardware Requirements

When running load tests for an application server, the average results are as follows for 1.25 concurrent users. I calculated 1.25 concurrent users by taking a peak hour of visitors (5 visitors) for a 15 minute duration (900 seconds), then divided…
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Nginx epoll_wait() issue under load test with Load Balancer

I'm using JMeter CLI to load tests our micro services (Nginx+PHP-FPM+Laravel). Micro services are all under an AWS Application Load Balancer which performs a health-check. For that micro service, load test runs with an average of 50req/s. After few…
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How to measure bandwidth per cpu utilization

I'm trying to measure efficiency of the networking system and looking for a tool that either allows to limit max bandwidth for each test or, ideally, limit cpu utilization. At the end I need to have an answer like "for 10% CPU bandwidth is…
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mass mail/load test/newsletter from Domino/Lotus Notes system

I need to generate a few thousand mails in Lotus Notes (with attachment) in order to test an extension to the Domino router I wrote. How can I do that? It may not be mails that are send into Domino via SMTP because I need to test Notes routing and…
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Can php+mysql scale to handle 5000 request per second?

I have web application build with php and mysql, and I except 5000 requests/sec in the first 6 months. and I register a dedicated server with CPU intel Xeon 4 cores 3.3GHz, 16G ram, Uplink 1000Mbps, bandwidth 25TB, and I tested the webserver using…
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Siege session cookie

I'm trying to use Siege to load test a Magento site. However, it does not appear that Siege makes requests with session cookie returned from previous request. For example, in my urls.txt…
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What kind of "streamlining" occurs when you use a single machine to generate load/stress?

The title of this question represents my main concern, but if you read on beyond the question section, you'll find some background about our set up.. which may or may not be relevant / useful. Question We're stress testing our application using…
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Realistic Network Load Testing

I am trying to benchmark an ASA under various conditions but what is throwing me off is my baseline seems to be odd. I am trying to load an ASA to full capacity. See the attached topology diagram: The players are: C1 a Linux client runs a…
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Replaying HTTP requests from a log file, to load test a new server?

I have a HTTP server that serves images generated from a database. It has some level of caching built in, etc. It generates map tile images for javascript based web maps (a la Google Maps etc.) We're thinking of switching to the underlying…
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Recommendations for Java Web Server

I am currently using DBCP for connection pooling since it is more or less provided with tomcat and easy to setup. I am thinking about migrating to Glassfish or Jetty and haven't yet determined which connection pool provider I will use. I am…
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Is there any way to test how many users an application can handle?

Possible Duplicate: How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites I am developing an PHP MYSQL application running on a Linux server I was wondering whether there is any way to test how many simultaneous users an application can…
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How many simultaneous requests would you expect a webserver to handle

I know there is no straight answer to this question - depends on specs etc. But what is the order of magnitude of simultaneous requests you'd expect a server to handle? Currently, our server starts to really slow down after more than 10 threads…
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Are there any products to replay IIS Logs files for load testing?

I would like to take log files from IIS and import them into a tool. Then in that tool I would like it to generate a load testing script that includes all the requests and the timing of the requests. It would be ideal if I could change the timing…
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how to configure http request pipeling using wrk?

I am trying to load test nodejs helloworld, which is running on system 1 at http://10.20.10.10:5000 and I want to pipeline http requests from system 2. wrk takes a script as a parameter. I am wondering what should be in the script pipeline.lua? Just…
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