Julian, thanks, I'll be testing with some of these tools: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbmonster/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/httperf/
best regards, -- pp On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Julian Leviston <[email protected]> wrote: > You can do a simple stress test by using apache bench at various levels and > then trying to use the app - of course it won't show you real world usage. > > This isn't much to do with the development environment, though... and it all > depends on the deployment environment you use... so it's pretty useless doing > stress testing without having something to stress test, really. > > For example, one of our apps fell over when a certain page wasn't paginated, > but not others... but we had no way of knowing that this particular page was > going to be an issue until it was an issue - then it took a couple of hours > to roll a change that fixed the issue until we rolled pagination... (which > didn't take very long because we were using Ruby). > > Deployment is pretty much a huge topic... it's not something someone can help > you with in a single email, and I'm pretty sure you'll only find people > willing to help you if you provide them with some money. > > Julian. > > On 08/11/2010, at 10:46 PM, Peter Pincus wrote: > >> Hi Julian, >> >> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Julian Leviston <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What do you mean by server load? >>> >>> As it is based around how much of the processor is being used, usually you >>> use server tools of some kind to do this, not the development framework of >>> a web application. >>> >>> Perhaps you mean some simple metric like hits per second to certain parts >>> of the web app you're developing or something else? >> >> yes, we'd like to know how many requests our app can deal with before >> getting sluggish. Something like measure the number of hits per >> second. Which tools can we use to teste this ? Are there any metrics >> around ? Basically we want to know that this server configuration can >> handle xyz amount of users interacting with the application, so that >> we can provision for hardware for 50, for 100 and for 200 users. >> >> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Julian. >>> >>> On 08/11/2010, at 1:31 AM, Peter Pincus wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> is there any way to test server load ? We need to test server load for >>>> severall scenarios. Any hint would be very appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> pp >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "merb" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "merb" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "merb" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "merb" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en.
