i'm looking to test a system that should handle a load of 100,000 clients ... eventually. right now, the clients are in fact time shifted and really the system supports 100 or so concurrent clients. that said, i'm looking to do some load / performance testing, so i naturally look to jmeter.
i've read several articles or blogs suggesting a limit of 300 threads for jmeter testing. i'm going to need many many more. perhaps 3,000 would be a good starting number. so, finally, my question is this. is the thread limit based on system resources? would using a distributed jmeter allow me to get up to 3,000 threads? what types of loads have jmeter users typically been able to put on their systems? my system under test is a back office system, but it provides an http interface to the end client. thanks! -mark-
