Memory management during load testing

2013-03-07 Thread Nick Gleason
Hi folks, We're doing some load testing on our application - particularly focused on a registration process. We're monitoring the test with a number of tools, including FusionReactor. As the test progresses, it's pretty easy to see the Memory Used statistic climbing. That's expected but we'd

Re: Memory management during load testing

2013-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
We're doing some load testing on our application - particularly focused on a registration process. We're monitoring the test with a number of tools, including FusionReactor. As the test progresses, it's pretty easy to see the Memory Used statistic climbing. That's expected but we'd

Re: Memory management during load testing

2013-03-07 Thread Nick Gleason
Hi Dave, Yes, we are on 64 bit with CF9 and a pretty good amount of memory allocated to the jvm (I'd have to check to find out exactly how much). As our load test progresses, the memory used stat in FusionReactor got as high as 75% for a little while. CF / Garbage collection seems pretty good

Re: Memory management during load testing

2013-03-07 Thread Byron Mann
Sounds like you are on the right track by using FusionReactor. Somewhat refreshing to see someone this concerned with memory usage in the age of affordable hardware. If everyone was like this our shared CF servers would probably be much happier. My example, we had a template that just did a

Re: Load Testing - what to look for and monitor/report

2012-02-12 Thread Dave Watts
We're doing performance analysis and looking for bottlenecks ... In that case, you want to test a single server only, at least to start. You'll need to define user paths that are most likely to be followed by users within the application, and define timers for each step of the user path (where

Re: Load Testing - what to look for and monitor/report

2012-02-11 Thread Dave Watts
and track memory etc? And then scale up after a specific duration? Or for the second test interval? I don't have much experience with load testing and just want to make sure that this is money well spend in terms of having some actionable data. It's hard to answer this without more

RE: Load Testing - what to look for and monitor/report

2012-02-11 Thread Brook Davies
[mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: February-11-12 7:46 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Load Testing - what to look for and monitor/report Anyhow, what I really want to know from you experts is what should I be watching and recording during these load tests? Generally, you're interested in response time

Load Testing - what to look for and monitor/report

2012-02-10 Thread Brook Davies
Hey Guys, I am hiring a load testing company, Neustar, to run some load tests on a new cf app and server deployment. I have FusionReactor installed and the platform is CF9 Standard on windows 2008 web server, and the backend is a separate MS SQL box. A beefy one at that J. The server

RE: Load testing tools.

2009-01-13 Thread Robert Rawlins
Mark, Jamie, Will, Thanks for the suggestions guys :-) I'll take a look into the different ones and see which works best for me JMeter certainly sounds very cool! Cheers all, Rob ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most

Load testing tools.

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Rawlins
Afternoon guys, Any good recommendations on load testing tools? I’m just looking for something that’ll make HTTP requests to a bunch of given URLS on set intervals for a period of time, monitoring response times etc. I’ve used a couple in the past but forget which, thought I’d get your

Re: Load testing tools.

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Mandel
I got quite into jMeter, but its a bit finicky to get into. Once you understand how it works, tho', its very flexible (and free!) Mark On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Robert Rawlins robert.rawl...@thinkbluemedia.co.uk wrote: Afternoon guys, Any good recommendations on load testing tools

RE: Load testing tools.

2009-01-12 Thread Jaime Metcher
server *will* crash - but do you know when? (cue spooky music). Jaime -Original Message- From: Mark Mandel [mailto:mark.man...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2009 7:23 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Load testing tools. I got quite into jMeter, but its a bit finicky to get

Re: Load testing tools.

2009-01-12 Thread Will Tomlinson
I played around with WebLoad and thought it was pretty easy to use. http://www.webload.org/ Will ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial

RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation

2008-07-24 Thread Burns, John D
- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation We're having some serious trouble with an internal website that uses IIS pass-through authentication that logs you

Re: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation

2008-07-24 Thread James Holmes
Your load testing tool, if it's worth anything, should come with a browser proxy that records everything you do and provides a script you can then edit and to which you can add username/password pairs from a text file. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How

RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation

2008-07-24 Thread Burns, John D
Any suggestions on a tool like this? We haven't invested in anything yet so I'm willing to take suggestions. Just looking to find the right tool. -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:25 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Load testing

Re: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation

2008-07-24 Thread Larry Lyons
We're having some serious trouble with an internal website Almost any load testing tool will do this. There's nothing specific to AD here, you simply have to record your browser session from an authenticated machine. The credentials are just another HTTP request header. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig

RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Watts
login, your browser sends an HTTP request header for every subsequent request. If you use a load testing tool that lets you record a browser session to create a script, this will be recorded along with everything else. Then when you run the script, the load testing tool will send the same HTTP

SOT: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authentication

2008-07-23 Thread Burns, John D
We're having some serious trouble with an internal website that uses IIS pass-through authentication that logs you in automatically based on the user you're logged into your computer as. The problem is, I can't find any load testing apps that will test a site with that type of login. My thinking

Re: SOT: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authentication

2008-07-23 Thread Shannon Peevey
load testing apps that will test a site with that type of login. My thinking is that it doesn't exist because it would have to spoof to AD authentication which shouldn't be able to be done or it defeats the purpose of that type of security. Can anyone confirm this or point us toward a product

Re: SOT: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authentication

2008-07-23 Thread Jim Wright
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone confirm this or point us toward a product that does it? This may do what you need http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34g=6i=1466

RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Watts
We're having some serious trouble with an internal website that uses IIS pass-through authentication that logs you in automatically based on the user you're logged into your computer as. The problem is, I can't find any load testing apps that will test a site with that type of login. My

Load Testing

2008-04-02 Thread Mike Harman
I'm interested in hearing what others are doing for load testing and what software they use. Thanks, Mike Harman ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http

Re: Load Testing

2008-04-02 Thread Brian Kotek
I've had good luck with the MS stress test tool: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/itsolutions/intranet/downloads/webstres.mspx?mfr=true On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Mike Harman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in hearing what others are doing for load testing and what

RE: Load Testing

2008-04-02 Thread Adam Churvis
seem like an exaggeration, but hardly any of them are actually effective in testing what needs to be tested. We run a load testing lab, so whether you want to hire it out to us, or if you just want some advice, then contact me offlist and I'll be happy to help in either capacity. Respectfully

Re: Load Testing

2008-04-02 Thread Matthew Williams
There's also Selenium (http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/download.jsp) and LoadRunner (now of HP, formerly of Mercury Software https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=btocp=1-11-126-17%5E8_4000_100__). Selenium is free, LoadRunner is exceedingly not free. Matthew

RE: Load Testing Software

2007-10-03 Thread Tim Ashworth
] Sent: 02 October 2007 19:55 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load Testing Software HI, Did you try using Microsoft Web Stress Tool? It's quite decent and it's free. Jayesh Viradiya Adobe CF Team -Original Message- From: Tim Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:23

Re: Load Testing Software

2007-10-03 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 02 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try using Microsoft Web Stress Tool? It's quite decent and it's free. Assuming I've already paid a fortune for my O/S licence, right ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to conveniently maintain value-added e-services on:

Load Testing Software

2007-10-02 Thread Tim Ashworth
Hi All, Could anyone recommend a load testing tool? I've tried OpenSTA but didn't get on with the help contents too well.. Thanks in advance, Tim ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies

Re: Load Testing Software

2007-10-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 02 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone recommend a load testing tool? I've tried OpenSTA but didn't get on with the help contents too well.. I like Apache JMeter. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to globally envisioneer vertical deliverables on: http

Re: Load Testing Software

2007-10-02 Thread Rick Root
webload is open source and free and pretty popular. Never used it myself but I plan to.. www.webload.org ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex

RE: Load Testing Software

2007-10-02 Thread Tim Ashworth
Cheers, I'll report back. t -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2007 16:34 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Load Testing Software webload is open source and free and pretty popular. Never used it myself but I plan to.. www.webload.org

RE: Load Testing Software

2007-10-02 Thread Jayesh Viradiya
HI, Did you try using Microsoft Web Stress Tool? It's quite decent and it's free. Jayesh Viradiya Adobe CF Team -Original Message- From: Tim Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Load Testing Software Hi All, Could anyone

RE: Load Testing

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
This Load Testing is very intriguing stuff, something I've not considered doing until this topic came up. How does this stuff work with user authentication? The large majority of my application (all except one lonely cfm) are behind my authentication system, is this passler software (or any

Re: Load Testing

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 24 May 2007, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: How does this stuff work with user authentication? The large majority of my application (all except one lonely cfm) are behind my authentication system, is this passler software (or any of the others) able to work around that if I

RE: Load Testing

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
] Sent: 24 May 2007 09:56 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Load Testing On Thursday 24 May 2007, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: How does this stuff work with user authentication? The large majority of my application (all except one lonely cfm) are behind my authentication system, is this passler

Re: Load Testing

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 24 May 2007, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Just out of interest which tool are you using Tom? I've downloaded the trial edition of the Pasler one this morning and it seems to run very nicely and give me a decent level of feedback. We don't, actually, load test (yeah, I know,

Load Testing

2007-05-23 Thread Jake Pilgrim
I'm just wondering, what do you use for load testing your applications? Thanks! Jake ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com

Re: Load Testing

2007-05-23 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
2007 Subject: Load Testing I'm just wondering, what do you use for load testing your applications? Thanks! Jake ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http

Re: Load Testing

2007-05-23 Thread Brian Kotek
If you have access to a Windows box, Microsoft has a free and quite easy to use load testing tool: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e2c0585a-062a-439e-a67d-75a89aa36495DisplayLang=en On 5/23/07, Jake Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just wondering, what do you use

Re: Load Testing

2007-05-23 Thread Oğuz Demirkapı
Webserver Stress Tool http://www.paessler.com/webstress Jake Pilgrim wrote: I'm just wondering, what do you use for load testing your applications? Thanks! Jake -- ~~~ Oğuz Demirkapı TeraTech Inc. | Senior Developer 405 East

Load testing and Maximum number of simultaneous requests

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Rother
Hey Everyone, We are having to go through load testing for a client... Anyhow, our net admin who really knew his stuff left a few months ago and those of us that are left are a bit in the dark about some of the CF Admin settings. The customer is complaining that CF is only allowing 8

RE: Load testing and Maximum number of simultaneous requests

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Vernon
I generally go for around 8 per physical CPU that the server has. ColdFusions threading model is totally different to that of ASP and if your client is used to an ASP environment, 8 threads may seem a little low although it isn't when you consider how the threading model is implemented. I can't

Re: Load testing and Maximum number of simultaneous requests

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Rother
Awesome, That math is a perfect starting point for our tweaking. Thanks Paul. =] On 2/27/07, Paul Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I generally go for around 8 per physical CPU that the server has. ColdFusions threading model is totally different to that of ASP and if your client is used

Re: Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-05 Thread Larry Lyons
Any have recommendations on software to use to load test websites? We want to do some testing on our CMS. Right now we are windows only (IIS MS SQL). Thanks in advance! jonese I've had pretty good experience with the Apache Jakarta project's jmeter, http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/. When

Re: Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-04 Thread Tero Pikala
LoadRunner is good but expensive. Proper testing with it takes someone who really knows it well. Apache JMeter runs well in Windows and basics can be learned in half day. It's free and usually is my first choise. It uses rather unique terminology in my opinion, though. What it lacks is

RE: Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-04 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Adrian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:08 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Windows Based Load testing? I've used the Ms Web Application Stress Tool before, its okay... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231282 I'll second

Re: Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-04 Thread Ryan Stille
I've had good luck with OpenSTA. Its free and runs on Windows. You can get it from opensta.org. -Ryan CF WebTools http://ryan.cfwebtools.com ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create

Re: Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-03 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Feb 03 05:01:27 2007 Subject: RE: Windows Based Load testing? This info is from a few years back, but Mercury Interactive's Load Runner was pretty good...we used that at one of my old jobs pretty extensively to tweak some efficiency out of our site. Eric -Original Message- From: jonese

Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-02 Thread jonese
Any have recommendations on software to use to load test websites? We want to do some testing on our CMS. Right now we are windows only (IIS MS SQL). Thanks in advance! jonese ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience

Re: Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-02 Thread Adrian
I've used the Ms Web Application Stress Tool before, its okay... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231282 On 02/02/07, jonese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any have recommendations on software to use to load test websites? We want to do some testing on our CMS. Right now we are windows only (IIS

RE: Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-02 Thread Dave Watts
Any have recommendations on software to use to load test websites? We want to do some testing on our CMS. Right now we are windows only (IIS MS SQL). Your load testing can run on any platform; it doesn't matter that the servers to be tested run on Windows. Segue SilkPerformer and Mercury

RE: Windows Based Load testing?

2007-02-02 Thread Eric Roberts
:03 To: CF-Talk Subject: Windows Based Load testing? Any have recommendations on software to use to load test websites? We want to do some testing on our CMS. Right now we are windows only (IIS MS SQL). Thanks in advance! jonese

CF Load testing tools

2006-06-14 Thread Josh Nathanson
Hey all, What are some recommendations for CF-based server load testing tools, if any exist? This is the first time I've needed to do any load testing so I'm looking for something easy to implement, and that could simulate different amounts of load. Our current site averages about 1.7

Re: CF Load testing tools

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Ross
Why do you want it to be CF-based? (load-testing is a really a client-side activity) Anyways, check out Microsoft's Web Stress Tool or JMeter - both free tools that are widely used. Dave Ross http://www.coldspringframework.org Hey all, What are some recommendations for CF-based server load

Re: CF Load testing tools

2006-06-14 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Well Silk Performer and other tools from Mercury Software (www.mercury.com) are very good, but expensive. Depends on yer budget. http://www.mercury.com/us/products/performance-center/ Josh Nathanson wrote: Hey all, What are some recommendations for CF-based server load testing tools

Re: CF Load testing tools

2006-06-14 Thread Josh Nathanson
PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: Re: CF Load testing tools Why do you want it to be CF-based? (load-testing is a really a client-side activity) Anyways, check out Microsoft's Web Stress Tool or JMeter - both free tools

RE: CF Load testing tools

2006-06-14 Thread Munson, Jacob
. - Original Message - From: Dave Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Why do you want it to be CF-based? (load-testing is a really a client-side activity) Anyways, check out Microsoft's Web Stress Tool or JMeter - both free tools that are widely

Re: CF Load testing tools

2006-06-14 Thread Josh Nathanson
: RE: CF Load testing tools There's also OpenSTA, which I haven't used but have heard good things about. And it's open source, which I know doesn't get as many people excited around here as in other circles, but that's always a plus for me. http://www.opensta.org/ -Original Message

Re: CF Load testing tools

2006-06-14 Thread Josh Nathanson
Message - From: Munson, Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:11 PM Subject: RE: CF Load testing tools There's also OpenSTA, which I haven't used but have heard good things about. And it's open source, which I know doesn't get

Re: CF Load testing tools

2006-06-14 Thread James Holmes
Yes, that's what I found when I tried it. I recommend it to all. You can even distribute your tests to a farm of clients to come closer to simulating a real-life load situaiton. On 6/15/06, Josh Nathanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick report: OpenSTA rocks. It lets you record browser sessions

Load Testing ColdFusion Applications Using SeeFusion

2005-04-14 Thread Steven Erat
The Online ColdFusion Meetup Group invites you to a virtual presentation on the ColdFusion monitoring tool, SeeFusion, Thursday April 14, 2005 at 6:00 PM EDT. RSVP here http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4387662/ for more information on where to view the meeting. SeeFusion, available at

RE: Load Testing ColdFusion Applications Using SeeFusion

2005-04-14 Thread Calvin Ward
Weird, where are the submit buttons? -Original Message- From: Steven Erat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Load Testing ColdFusion Applications Using SeeFusion The Online ColdFusion Meetup Group invites you to a virtual presentation

RE: Load Testing ColdFusion Applications Using SeeFusion

2005-04-14 Thread Calvin Ward
Bah, for some reason our proxy was blocking it... nm -Original Message- From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load Testing ColdFusion Applications Using SeeFusion Weird, where are the submit buttons? -Original

Re: Load Testing ColdFusion Applications Using SeeFusion

2005-04-14 Thread Steven Erat
If you missed this online presentation of SeeFusion monitoring for ColdFusion MX servers, it is now archived for public viewing here: http://mmsupport.breezecentral.com/p39006045/ This includes the slides, the live demo, the chat, and all the audio. Thanks to everyone who participated in this

Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Craig Dudley
What do people you to test their CF Applications/Sites? Any advice on what to avoid/try? Thanks Craig Dudley Senior Developer Netstep Corporate Communications Ltd Direct Line: +44(0) 1422 319712 Phone: +44(0) 1422 200308 Fax: +44(0) 1422 200306 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Messenger: [EMAIL

RE: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Russ
_ From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications. What do people you to test their CF Applications/Sites? Any advice on what to avoid/try? Thanks Craig Dudley Senior Developer Netstep Corporate

Re: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Douglas Knudsen
:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications. What do people you to test their CF Applications/Sites? Any advice on what to avoid/try? Thanks Craig Dudley Senior Developer Netstep Corporate Communications Ltd Direct Line: +44(0) 1422 319712 Phone: +44(0) 1422 200308

Re: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Spike
I've used OpenSTA in the past with pretty good results. If you want to do some really heavy duty testing and can afford the licenses there are a couple that I'm aware of. When I used to teach the ColdFusion Performance Tuning class a few years back we used Segue SilkPerformer. It was one of

Re: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Adam Churvis
Our load testing lab uses e-TEST Suite 7.0 from Empirix, plus a few other tools for generating production scale data, analyzing database internals under load, etc. We provide this as a service, if you're interested. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia Advanced

Re: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:51:53 +0100, Craig Dudley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people you to test their CF Applications/Sites? Any advice on what to avoid/try? We use Microsoft WAST (free) for simple stuff and Segue SilkPerformer ($$$) for heavy duty testing. -- Sean A Corfield --

RE: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Dave Watts
We use Microsoft WAST (free) for simple stuff ... But Sean, that only runs on Windows! Given the length of a typical load test, I'm surprised you can hold your nose that long. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 [Todays Threads]

Re: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Umer Farooq
too bad OpenSTA has only win GUI.. try Jmeter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ If you need to get a hold of... system resource data.. etc.. etc.. try Nagios (windows plugins are available) and have the output put into a DB.. and then use CF to graph.. and it won't taint your results.. I

Re: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Spike
ROFL That's the funniest thing I've seen on this list in a long time. Dave Watts wrote: We use Microsoft WAST (free) for simple stuff ... But Sean, that only runs on Windows! Given the length of a typical load test, I'm surprised you can hold your nose that long. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig

Re: Slightly OT, load testing CF Applications.

2004-10-11 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:47:37 -0400, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use Microsoft WAST (free) for simple stuff ... But Sean, that only runs on Windows! Given the length of a typical load test, I'm surprised you can hold your nose that long. LOL!!! I do try to stay out of the QA lab

Load Testing software

2004-09-07 Thread Ben Frame
Hi All, I've been working on Stress/Load testing some applications recently, and wondered which, if any, testing tools work best for testing CF applications? I've mostly used the general web stress test tools (Rational, MS Web Application Stress Tool, etc...).However, it seems there are some

Re: Load Testing software

2004-09-07 Thread Adam Churvis
We use e-TEST Suite 7.0 in our load testing lab.It's an amazing product, but it's expensive. Regarding platform-specific tools, the main thing you're looking for is its ability to directly read and use metrics from the platform, which e-TEST Suite does quite well. Respectfully, Adam Phillip

RE: Load testing

2004-06-21 Thread Kelly Tetterton
I won't beat a dead horse here, other than to agree with the previous posters: look at the database and caching strategies first. We documented our recent load testing experience in an April CFDJ article; you can read it here: http://www.duoconsulting.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.detail

RE: Load testing

2004-06-21 Thread Yves Arsenault
Thanks to all who replied... Thanks for the info Dave. :-) Yves _ From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 20, 2004 9:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing I was wondering what was the general pratice for testing your app is In my experience, the general

RE: Load testing

2004-06-21 Thread Yves Arsenault
And thanks Kelly... I'll certainly read the article. Yves _ From: Kelly Tetterton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 21, 2004 9:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing I won't beat a dead horse here, other than to agree with the previous posters: look at the database

RE: Load testing

2004-06-20 Thread Dave Watts
. Is there any way of similating a certain number of hits per minute? Yes, there are plenty of load testing tools. Some are free, such as my favorite free load tester, OpenSTA (http://www.opensta.org/). Some are incredibly expensive, such as Segue SilkPerformer, which can run up to $50K

RE: Load testing

2004-06-20 Thread Dave Watts
rant is cfloop really needed is a horrible thing to look at before you do load testing. ... Amen, brother! And of course, don't forget to load test after each and every step, excluding the BBQ ones. Unfortunately, if I don't load test after BBQ, I'll have to buy new pants. Dave Watts

RE: Load testing

2004-06-20 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
Unfortunately, if I don't load test after BBQ, I'll have to buy new pants. That about takes the cake Dave, good heavens... Calm yourself! :-) [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

Re: Load testing

2004-06-20 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Unfortunately, if I don't load test after BBQ, I'll have to buy new pants. That about takes the cake Dave, good heavens... Calm yourself! No, that takes lots of detergent and sometimes bleach ;) [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

Re: Load testing

2004-06-20 Thread Dick Applebaum
On Jun 20, 2004, at 7:05 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: Unfortunately, if I don't load test after BBQ, I'll have to buy new pants. That about takes the cake Dave, good heavens... Calm yourself! No, that takes lots of detergent and sometimes bleach ;) Or Spray and Toss -- must be a slow

Load testing

2004-06-18 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello, I was wondering what was the general pratice for testing your app is Is there any way of similating a certain number of hits per minute? I'd like to test some sections of some apps and see what kind of performance my code is getting (or not getting). Does anyone have any

Re: Load testing

2004-06-18 Thread ColdFusion Developer
Weuse a product called: WebLoad by Radview Software www.radview.com - Original Message - From: Yves Arsenault To: CF-Talk Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 7:51 PM Subject: Load testing Hello, I was wondering what was the general pratice for testing your app is Is there any way

RE: Load testing

2004-06-18 Thread Yves Arsenault
Thanks, I'll check this out. Yves _ From: ColdFusion Developer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 18, 2004 9:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Load testing Weuse a product called: WebLoad by Radview Software www.radview.com - Original Message - From: Yves Arsenault To: CF

RE: Load testing

2004-06-18 Thread Barney Boisvert
You can spend zero to many thousand dollars on load testing software, depending on what you need.I've always been happy with httpload, which is an incredibly simple app (for *nix at least, don't know about windows) that will take a set of URLs, and request them at whatever speed you want

Re: Load Testing Tools

2004-02-26 Thread Pete Freitag
Sam komolafe wrote: Can someone recommend a good load testing tool for my ColdFusion server.I have a Compaq Pentium IIIDL380 - dual processor server with win2000 server. OpenSTA: http://www.opensta.org/ or the Microsoft Stress tool are both free, and work well

Load Testing Tools

2004-02-26 Thread Sam komolafe
Can someone recommend a good load testing tool for my ColdFusion server.I have a Compaq Pentium IIIDL380 - dual processor server with win2000 server. Thanks Sam --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses.] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

Re: Load Testing Tools

2004-02-26 Thread Charlie Griefer
AM Subject: Load Testing Tools Can someone recommend a good load testing tool for my ColdFusion server. I have a Compaq Pentium IIIDL380 - dual processor server with win2000 server. Thanks Sam --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses.] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription

RE: load testing tools/services?

2003-12-02 Thread Adam Hope
: load testing tools/services? What do people use for load testing? Ideally, we'd like to find a service that we could point to a pre-production version of a website, create several scripted scenarios, and test under various conditions. All for a low, low price, of course. Any recommendations

OT: load testing tools/services?

2003-12-01 Thread Kelly Tetterton
What do people use for load testing? Ideally, we'd like to find a service that we could point to a pre-production version of a website, create several scripted scenarios, and test under various conditions. All for a low, low price, of course. Any recommendations? Kelly Tetterton duo | Technical

RE: load testing tools/services?

2003-12-01 Thread Haggerty, Mike
testing tools/services? What do people use for load testing? Ideally, we'd like to find a service that we could point to a pre-production version of a website, create several scripted scenarios, and test under various conditions. All for a low, low price, of course. Any recommendations? Kelly

Web App load testing software

2003-11-03 Thread DeMarco, Alex
We are getting ready to roll out several new app and I was wondering what tools people use to stress test their applications with? - Alex [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

RE: Web App load testing software

2003-11-03 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
There a few Stress tools out there...we use Microsoft Homer (Stress tool). _ From: DeMarco, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 November 2003 12:50 To: CF-Talk Subject: Web App load testing software We are getting ready to roll out several new app and I was wondering what tools people

RE: Web App load testing software

2003-11-03 Thread Ryan Kime
I haven't used it yet, but I hear this is a pretty good package: http://www.dieseltest.com/ http://www.dieseltest.com/ -Original Message- From: DeMarco, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Web App load testing software We

Re: Web App load testing software

2003-11-03 Thread Adam Churvis
Download CommerceBlocks V2.1 and LoRCAT from http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com The ColdFusion MX Bible is in bookstores now! - Original Message - From: DeMarco, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:49 AM Subject: Web App load testing

Re: Web App load testing software

2003-11-03 Thread Geoff Bowers
DeMarco, Alex wrote: We are getting ready to roll out several new app and I was wondering what tools people use to stress test their applications with? OpenSTA: http://www.opensta.org/ It's great, flexible, programable... and did I mention its open source and free. -- geoff bowers Team

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