Celeste, you say: > We haven't seen this problem, not yet anyway. But our servers > are not under > much of a load yet, as our site is just getting off the ground. We expect > that to change over the next three to four months. If we do run into the > same problem, I suspect that will be the final straw for the owner of this > facility, and he too will decide to go with another JSP/Servlet > server.
I'm curious if you're considering load testing before just waiting to see what happens. Indeed, I'd like to open this discussion to a broader one of whether people do use load testing tools, especially if they do anticipate a growth in load. Or is the feeling that they're too expensive or cumbersome. Perhaps people can share their experiences with any load testing tools, indicating as well if the relative costs and challenges in using them. Perhaps they can also clarify their own load requirements: clearly someone with a commercial, clustered site with hundreds of thousands of hits per day will have different needs (and preferences) over someone with a smaller organization (or intranet) site getting hundreds of hits per day. Still, for issues like this one being discussed, just simulating many per second in a load testing tool could identify a problem that might otherwise not crop up until later. As Celeste says, better to know about it sooner than later. A testing tool seems of more value to people than they seem to give it credit. What are the facets that stop people from using them? Cost? Complexity? Lack of awareness? Choosing among many alternatives? Hopefully this thread will at least help us on the list get a better idea of what options make sense for our varying needs, and we can pass along our discoveries to others, and so on. /charlie ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
