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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 do I check how many users can a server handle before going online?

Possible Duplicate: How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites I'm moving a site from shared hosting to a VPS, which I have set up. I've made a change to my hosts file so that I see the site on the new server - it works ok as…
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Stress test a server for simultaneous connection

I am trying to figure out a practical way to stress test a server for 300 to 600 simultaneous connections. Any advice? Thank you everyone for the help. To be more specific (sorry I wasn't before) this is a Flash Media Server on AWS that will be…
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Advice for simulating a high load on a web application -- realistic httperf parameters

I have already selected httperf as the load testing tool to use. I'm trying to figure out some realistic parameters to use, and if I need to use multiple machines to create more simultaneous connections, etc. I've done some basic load testing…
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How to determine approximate maximum number of requests?

I'm building a quite simple web application, and need to get some rough understanding of how much load my server can take. Of course, this depends on a whole lot of factors, but I just need a rough idea if we're talking about ten or ten thousand…
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Can anyone please recommend any good Load Testing software?

Can anyone please recommend any good Load Testing software? I have a website which updates scores every minute via ajax calls and need a load testing software which supports ajax calls (javascript) too!
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Load and performance testing for webapps with JavaScript support

Years ago I used OpenSTA to perform load and performance tests for web applications. I remember that it offered great recording possibilities which enabled us to quickly create new test scripts. Unfortunately it's a bit outdated, hence I'm a bit…
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Is there anyway way to speed up Exchange 2007's Load Generator tool?

I'm running Load Generator to test our new deployment before going live and the initialization process has been running for two days and is only at 25% for ~58000 user test. Does anyone know of a way to speed up this process? Surely it shouldn't…
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Linux server not allowing more than 2048 concurrent connections

I tried to do load test on MQTT from my MACOS, and was able to successfully achieve more than 12k connections till my bandwidth got exhausted. I tried to do the same test on GCP machine and it gave me connection timed out exception once the opened…
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Sever User Capacity for 3 hours

The non-profit I work for is planning to host an online virtual tel-a-thon later this month. At MAX, we plan to have 1200 people access our landing page at the same time to watch the livestream event. I'm currently running our website on an AWS…
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How can do Load Test against WebSocket?

We will have to do a load test for the first time. To tell the truth, I don't know exactly what to look for and how to do it. I have also researched resources on this subject but I could not obtain enough information on the internet and I wanted to…
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How to improve performance of Nginx for high PHP processing load?

I wonder how I could improve the performance of my server? It is configured with Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS), 4 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 2 CPU, with Nginx 1.14.0 and PHP 7.2-fpm to handle running and serving a site that generates dynamic pages from a database.…
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How can I ensure that server can handle the load of new users to email marketing tool?

My situation is that I have just taken over a web team who host all of their clients websites using a server provided by Clook The websites have a functionality where the client's customers can sign up for a mailing list via a web form and the…
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Configurable Stateful Traffic Generator Advice

I need a traffic generator tool which I should be able to configure followings; Number of Packets Number of Sessions Number of TCP, UDP packets Average number of packets in a session Average packet size Standard deviation of packet sizes Average…
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Can a load stress test (for example with Loader.io) cause a Denial of Service?

I want to test the performance of my server using Loader.io service, but I'm worried about the impact. From what I understand the site will load stress my server making multiple requests, what is the limit of that? is not possible to cause a denial…
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Need to correlate ps and load average

Let's say that I have 4 CPUs. In that case, load average should not go beyond 4 for better performance, it means only 4 threads can be run at a time (i.e., only 4 should be in R status in ps output). Correct me if I'm wrong. A Java program with…
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