Stress testing is a form of testing that is used to determine the stability of a given system or entity under load. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results.
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Stress test uploading speed of the server [duplicate]
I need to test a server max uploading speed, before production. What options do i have?
Any services, tips, tricks are welcomed.
Thanks.
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Linux Program For Stress Testing Current Website [duplicate]
I'm evolved in a project and the server cost's we're using are going to be based on a number of different factors.
One of those factors are how many cores we need for the website.
If there a ...
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What Testing for Secondhand Servers?
I've recently bought a used rackmount 2950 server on Ebay to use for a specific project.
I'm going to be spending a lot of time on this server, so I want to try and identify any major problems before ...
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Tools to measure production web server load? [closed]
I see plenty of tools to stress test a web site, I'm curious how loaded our web servers really are. How many queries can IIS 7.5 handle on Windows Server 2008 R2 - how close am I to maxing out a ...
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Anyone knows Web stress testing tool capable to not follow redirects
Does anybody knows a web stress tool which can be instructed do not follow redirects?
I need to stress test a web application which does redirect at the end and I don't want that redirect to be ...
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Stress (Linux) Settings, Expectations, and Questions [closed]
Just got some new Cores and RAM in last week, wamnted to stress test them and see if they were any good. Unfortunately I couldn't find any real resources on how to do this without an OD so I fired up ...
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How to test server under heavy network traffic? [closed]
I need to test our server infrastructure providing static content, under heavy traffic. I need to utilize 10GBps at minimum if our new CDN infrastructure is working correctly, or pinout bottlenecks. ...
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Emulating a real `living` Datacentre
I am working on enhancing a BI platform, plugged into a bunch of stats gathered from a virtual datacentre (based on Jasper, but this shouldn't really make a difference).
So far, I have 4 hypervisors ...
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best practice or tools for stress test on a Tomcat application server and MySQL?
I am using Tomcat 6 application container for my web site. HTTP requests come from mobile phones and every time server receive a httprequest it opens MySQL connection, insert some data in it and then ...
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Stress testing Django app - how to improve throughput?
I'm having my first attempt at stress testing a simple django web app running from gunicorn and nginx which I’ve put on a small 256MB Rackspace Cloud server.
Using httperf, I increase the number of ...
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How can I test how an application handles thousands of TCP connections?
We're attempting to track down an issue a client is having with injecting large quantities of mail to our gateway, and somewhere along the line, his connections are being rejected. Unfortunately, ...
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How to test cat5/cat6 cable runs, using software-only, or simple tools?
Are there any utilities or simple tools or techniques to easily test a CAT5 cable, to see how well was it installed?
Cat5 is often installed by amateurs, but has been installed and "working" for ...
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How to perform diagnostics (stress test) on HP Smartarray Controller
At my office, we have a server that we suspect its RAID controller (HP Smartarray) is failing. A cold boot, however, does not indicate anything.
Can anyone recommend me a method to stress-test the ...
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Automated Load/Stress testing via a continuous integration server
My company currently has stress tests that are run manually through JMeter. We also use TeamCity for automation of JUnit testing.
It's become clear that we need to automate our stress testing as well ...
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Linux - Counter Measure against Stress Tools
I have a VPS running Ngix and currently hosting a few websites. As you know VPS have low resource and the security measures should be done by client.
I just noticed many stress tools are out there ...
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stress test apache tomcat configuration
am using grails with apache tomcat. I have set database connection pooling to 300 and the following connector for tomcat. but I can't do 4000 concurrent access using apache jmeter
<Connector ...
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Stress-testing Apache Tomcat
How can I stress test apache tomcat app?
I tried using jmeter but will get error from jmeter after a certain number:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at ...
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Apache ab test and fail- Apache or PHP configuration issue?
I wrote a RESTful web service to be the backbone behind a mobile app using PHP and the Restler library. It's running on my dev server running Windows Server 2008 R2, PHP 5.3.5, Apache 2.2.17, and ...
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How much memory can I lock before the system starts swapping/thrashing?
I'm trying to use Memtester as a memory stress and correctness test for my organization's Linux boxes. Memtester basically just takes in an amount of memory to test as an argument, locks that much ...
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Strange Jmeter connection refuse on Tomcat
I tried difference setting in Jmeter and Tomcat.
If the Threads number in JMeter is 1~200, Then tomcat is okay.
If It is 300, Then after serving few requests, tomcat starts to output errors.
Here ...
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Is there a service that simulates high traffic using data from log files?
I need to test a saas service load by sending 1000s requests/sec from multiple remote sources. The urls need to be from my access log. Is there a service that does that?
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load testing based on access log recording [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tools for load-testing HTTP servers?
I need to load test a saas system to find capacity+bottlenecks.
My preferred method is to record a few 100,000s or millions of real ...
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Stress Testing / Load Testing Proxy services / web servers
What are the best load testing tools for stress testing web servers and proxy services such as NAT.
Some metrics to consider include
throughput.
hits per second.
machine load.
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Ubuntu server burn in test
We've assembled a simple storage server with COTS SATA disks that we're planning to tie together with software raid (Ubuntu Server, mdadm). What burn-in tests can one run to test the system, in ...
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issues with jmeter concurency testing
I'm doing stress test on my web server, using 8 different clients in jmeter:
3 of them are on SunOS 5
3 of them are on SunOS 5 but in virutalbox
2 of them are on linux
If I do a test only using ...
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How to stress test web server?
Is there a tool (preferably a web service) that can stress test our site? We're having problems with our site going down once we have about 100 concurrent users. Forums seem to suggest I need to tweak ...
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DCHP and Router load testing
I manage a campground wifi network with an average of 10 - 60 active users. I have encountered issues where the router starts acting flaky (failing to assign DHCP or failing to pass traffic) without ...
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FTP server performance
I have build an FTP server which needs to be able to handle 2000Connexion/minute. Each client connect and upload some file to the server
I'm using pure-ftpd. Anyone knows what kind of server (I'm ...
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Performance testing servers: How to characterize performance?
I need to purchase servers, and need to understand the right way to specify them.
Based on the answers to this question, there are several parameters to take into account:
CPU speed + Number of CPU ...
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Stress login-area with Siege
I need testing the performance of the reserved area of my website. I want use Siege for this goal.
For accessing to reserved area you must be logged to my site.
How can I send with Siege a ...
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How to test RAM from Windows 2003 without planning an outage?
Is there a way to test RAM from within running Windows 2003? I suspect bad ram but don't want to plan an outage to test it (especially that getting into server room isn't the easiest). I know about ...
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What are the good ways to stress testing machines in data center clusters?
We recently got a bunch of machines in data center and want to do stress testing for drive failures.
How to stress test for drive failures. Are there any tools available?
Are there any other ...
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How can artificially create a slow query in mysql?
I'm giving a hands on presentation in a couple weeks. Part of this demo is for basic mysql trouble shooting including use of the slow query log. I've generated a database and installed our app but its ...
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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) ...
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Stress Testing Windows Server 2k8 Box
Let me start off by explaining why I want to do this. Everything was running fine. I imported a snapshot of a MySQL DB on another server in prep for setting up master-master replication (this one ...
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stress test video streaming [closed]
is there a way to stress test video streaming?
Basically simulating a high number of people simultaneously streaming a video?
This is an amazon 'cloud' service that will be enabled for my site.
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What software to test SATA drives before adding to RAID 5 Array
I'll be creating a 6drive RAID 5 array for use with Openfiler. What I'd like to do is test the drives thoroughly before building the array and putting them into production. What free software is ...
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What can I do to “stress test” an ASA5505?
Just wondering there is any kind of stress test I can put the ASA through. I'm asking this not to help with a problem but just for reference.
I know I could use iperf to send a bunch of traffic ...
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Are there any tools for load / stress testing that can simulate image, video and audio uploads to Amazon EC2?
As part of my web application users can upload photos, audio and video files from a Flash SWF to my EC2 based upload server. I want to find a tool that I can use to stress test the EC2 instance (which ...
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server benchmarking with apache benchmark
We are testing one of our production server with ab and what we found is
apr_socket_recv: Connection timed out (110)
Total of 176 requests completed
after some time above output.That means the ...
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Stress Testing VPS
Anyone ever stress test a VPS. Or know of any custom stress tests that would work?
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slow server on ssh output of top
top - 21:15:43 up 2:28, 1 user, load average: 0.54, 0.50, 0.52
Tasks: 225 total, 1 running, 223 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.4%us, 2.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.5%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, ...
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Stress test speed on a gateway?
I'm interested in stress testing my gateway server but am lost on how. Most of the stress testing applications I've seen only see how much load an app like Apache can handle, but not this.
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Stress testing an RDS server / farm
I need to find a way to autotest a small RDS deployment for ~50 users, working in a set of RDS session hosts.
The users are going to be mainly running MS Office 2007 - Excel, Word, Outlook (connected ...
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Server stress test and configuring for beginners?
Our city is having a very public event soon (data harvesting for public spots available in the city hall) which required our company to create a form application to submit curriculums and some ...
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Network Download Test?
I currently have 2 links of 20 Mbps on my hand and wanted to test them internationally and nationally.
I already have the 2 national links for test but am having problems finding some good ...
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Getting a copy of all e-mails passing through postfix?
I'm changing postfix installations from one installed years ago by people who are no longer here on an operating system which is no longer supported, and I'd like to get a sampling of real data from ...
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How to stress test an apache server running on a linux box
There seems to be something taking our server off-line and we are having trouble tracing the cause, if it is down to load of a particular site or a script. It does seem to be Apache related.
Does ...
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avoid people running “stress tests” / attacks on our server (CentOS + Apache)
today we ran apachebench on our server to stress test it. Of course, our system peaked and disk I/O was massive. Can we avoid that other people run such "tests" or some sort of attack to stress our ...
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JMeter Stress testing
MAMP server hosting a Joomla instance.
I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on the best way to stress test the server and find it's breaking point on concurrent users etc. Currently I have setup ...
