How to generate load on IIS?

Question

I want to start using load balancers, database replication and sharding, cloud computing. I know I can follow many tutorials, that's no problem, but I don't know how to generate sufficient traffic to load the web server. I want to see my test application working really slow and then apply some scaling techniques.

Q How can I generate huge load on my local IIS server? What tools can I use?

P.S. if it will help I want to use RESTful WCF service and No SQL DB/Cloud storage for a test app

Daniel Mošmondor · Answer 1 · 2011-06-02T15:13:03.043

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There was a great tool from microsoft called webstress. They removed it from their servers, but I managed to find it and placed it here.

From my memory, it can do log/replay traffic, multiple machine generating requests, has decent reporting capabilities....

EDIT:

Friend found out another one: http://seleniumhq.org/

edited Jun 02 '11 at 15:13

answered May 22 '11 at 20:59

Daniel Mošmondor

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As I uploaded to the dropbox, I figured out that it is already there on the cloud, upload lasted half-a-second. Popular tool :) – Daniel Mošmondor May 22 '11 at 21:04

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 14 '12 at 15:07

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You can use jMeter to record operations and orchestrate load on one or many clients. It requeres some setup but is both flexible and powerfull.

http://jmeter.apache.org/

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answered May 22 '11 at 21:01

faester

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I am sure I can use it with REST WCF, but do you think there might be a port to .NET, just for other .NET apps? – oleksii May 22 '11 at 21:07
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Hey - I don't think it is ported; it is an old project which contains a bunch of quite impressive features. I have used it successfully for testing aspx and WCF projects though, but a port would of course be welcome :) – faester May 22 '11 at 21:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 14 '12 at 15:08

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There are several tools available, here are a couple of free ones:

Although these are both java tools, you can use them to generate load directed at IIS

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answered May 22 '11 at 21:06

Shiraz Bhaiji

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+1 for JMeter. We use it for most of our load testing. Grinder looks good, too. – Peter K. Jun 02 '11 at 15:15

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 22 '11 at 21:04

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I would use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition for doing Load Tests.

The are also many other documents and articles on if you google it.

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 02 '11 at 15:17

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I haven't used it extensively, but SoapUI and LoadUI work well together to do this.

answered Jun 02 '11 at 15:17

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