welcome to the world of performance and load testing. The short answer to your question is you need to know what the performance requirements are in terms of
1. average response time 2. max and average concurrent load 3. max and average request/sec 4. number of machines 5. max network bandwidth 6. any Service Level Agreements and performance requirements the long answer is you need to know exactly what kind of service your testing and how it will be used. Without that information, stress testing won't tell you much and it won't make your life easier. I would suggest reading my articles to get an overview of what performance means and how to go about designing performance tests. http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/articles/performance.pdf http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/articles/benchmark_summary.pdf http://cvs.apache.org/~woolfel/article.zip hope that helps peter On 7/7/05, Andrea Loddo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am asking myself how I could interpret tests results. I am testing my > Web Service in localhost and my pc is a Pentium centrino 1.5 GHz with > 512MB RAM. So what are the normal performances of an application running > on this kind of pc? How many threads could I set with ramp-up period > =0sec? Has this operation sense on this pc? My Web Service doesn't > work with 5 threads and ramp-up period =0. Is that a bad result? > I get good results with > > number of threads:100 > > ramp-up period: 80 > > it means that my Web Service has not good performances, doesn't it? > > > Thanks very much. > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
