Plus for the $$$$$$$$ these cost, you get things like good probes of the app server, the database server, etc. And an easy way to generate reports. I've used eTest a bit in a previous set of gigs and love it. OpenSTA is ok, but the commercial arm of those folks sells the db probes and other useful bits. Still less than $15-30k, but not free!
But original question was for a 10 concurrent user site. MS Homer is probably fine for that -- or openSTA. Neither's been a problem generating that many simultaneous threads, at least for me and distributed across a couple machines. Regards, John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:49 PM Subject: Re: Load Testing > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Dave Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The free tools just don't have what it takes to > > > uncover all the potential problems your site can > > > encounter under load. There's a good reason why > > > the big tools can command such high prices. > > > > As someone who's used tools at both extremes - Segue SilkPerformer on the > > high end, OpenSTA on the low end - I'd disagree with this a little bit. > > > > In my opinion, the problem with the free tools isn't necessarily that they > > "don't have what it takes", just that they aren't nearly as easy to use, > so > > you have to spend a lot more time learning how to get useful data from > them. > > I agree with the reason why you disagree! :) > > This is actually the main reason why I say the free ones don't hack it. > It's just like the difference between doing "What If" scenarios on paper > versus with Excel: Recalculating a business scenario on paper might take > three hours, but in Excel the same recalculation would take a couple of > seconds. > > This reason alone creates a completely different quality of results: > rigorously refined versus "This is the best I could come up with on paper in > fifteen hours." > > Creating, testing, and refining a load test using e-TEST Suite lets you try > dozens of refinements in just a couple of hours, whereas the freebies are > not nearly as automated. This lack of automation alone will prevent the > finished tests from having a level of analytical quality worth the dollars > spent on creating them. > > > A > > capacity planning test for a large, complex public site might be a month's > > worth of work or more! > > You ain't kiddin'. This is really hard to get across to clients who don't > have experience with the nature of load testing. Most of them have the > pre-conceived notion that we can find out everything we need in one day. I > wish! > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > Advanced Intensive ColdFusion MX Training > http://www.ColdFusionTraining.com > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: 770-446-8866 > Team Macromedia Volunteer for ColdFusion > http://www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
