On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:18:53AM -0700, Frank Rizzo wrote: > you should be able to run at least 20 threads on a pentium class machine. also, if > you click on the test plan node in the tree, make sure functional test mode is > unchecked. > [snip!] > > So the answer is that jmeter, under normal circumstances, should be able to perform > better than what you've reported. But without more information, I cannot speculate > why you are seeing such poor performance. >
Thanks for your reply Frank. With 2-3 threads on my smallest machine, jmeter-server maxed out the CPU, while ApacheBench could run with 1000 concurrent requests. Admitedly, this was a very small machine and is not representative of the hardware I'll be using to run the actual tests. It _did_ give me a good comparison between AB and JMeter. At first it appeared as though the stress test would be simple GETs, but I just learned that for each "session" (1 get of this page, 5 gets of that one, and 10 of another) I must supply a unique 32 bit alpha-numeric parameter in each request. ApacheBench cannot do this, so I'll have to use JMeter. I've found a couple of decent size servers I can use, so it shouldn't be too bad. My problem will be generating that 32 bit string. The "Counter" pre-processor certainly won't be enough. Do you have any suggestions? :) Thanks! js. -- Jean-Sebastien Morisset, Sr. UNIX Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal Home Page <http://jsmoriss.mvlan.net/> JS & Melanie's Homebrewery <http://brewery.mvlan.net/> Underwater and Travel Photographs <http://www.mvpix.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
