A good tool for load testing is JMeter

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html


Here's a link to some testing we did with it for our product:

http://www.mhsoftware.com/caldemo/manual/en/pageFinder.html?page=622.htm

Basically, we go something like 1400 requests per minute on a uni-processor
P4.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
http://www.mhsoftware.com/
Voice: 303 438 9585
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zaki, Karim R UTCHQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:02 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: RE: Running Tomcat 5.0.28 in server mode
> 
> Well, I don't know how to measure the number of requests per 
> second. If you
> can provide help with that, that would be great. What I'm 
> doing is testing
> with a template provided by Vignette (I don't know if I can 
> send attachments
> on this list). It takes 2 seconds to load! This really 
> doesn't do any real
> work...so when the code starts to do something useful, we go 
> into over a
> minute of load time per page.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Sexton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:15 PM
> To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> Subject: RE: Running Tomcat 5.0.28 in server mode
> 
> What does really slow mean? That's a subjective assessment, not a
> quantititative value. How many requests per second?
> 
> George Sexton
> MH Software, Inc.
> http://www.mhsoftware.com/
> Voice: 303 438 9585
>   
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zaki, Karim R UTCHQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:46 AM
> > To: Tomcat User Group
> > Subject: Running Tomcat 5.0.28 in server mode
> > 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I'm running Tomcat 5.0.28 in conjunction with Vignette. JSPs use the
> > Vignette APIs (provided as JARs). Everything works, but 
> performance is
> > really slow. The server that's hosting this is a quad 
> > processor (@2GHz each)
> > Windows 2000 Server with 2GB of memory and a gigabit NIC...so 
> > I don't see
> > hardware as being an issue.
> > 
> > One thing I'm trying to do is run Tomcat in server mode. My 
> > understanding is
> > that this should enhance performance. However, adding 
> > "-server" to Tomcat's
> > "Java Options" box causes Tomcat to not start. What am I 
> doing wrong?
> > 
> > Also, if anyone can provide performance tuning 
> > recommendations, please do.
> > 
> > Thanks all..
> > 
> > Karim
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------
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> > 
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