Thanks, Chris I don't think that it's the machine running out of memory, 8 windows is taking about 150 MB of the 270 MB I have available before I get the seg fault. Closing additional expensive processes doesn't improve the number of windows I can run. Could I be running into a memory limit inside Ruby or Watir?
Thanks for the recommendation for Grinder, I will look into that, although the app is pretty back-end intensive per user, so I hope to be OK for a bit with Watir. -----Original Message----- From: Chris McMahon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:24 PM To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Seg-faults with >4 ie windows (hello) Maybe you're running out of memory? Take a look at taskmanager, or see if you can run more browsers on a beefier machine. I know I've personally run about 80-90 browsers simultaneously on a single desktop some time ago, but they weren't holding any large amounts of test data. Just BTW, you'll never achieve reasonable loads with browser-based test tools. You should consider something like Grinder for generating load. On 5/23/07, Michael Sofaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, all. > > > > I recently started using WATIR to automate load testing for my company's > application, and I'm running into some trouble when I try to run more than > four client windows at the same time. > > > > Each window needs its own ie process, since it needs its own session > variables, so I got the development gem and am using ie.new_process, which > works well most of the time. But when I try to run with more than about four > windows, I eventually get this error: > > > > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.1.1166/./watir/contrib/ie-new-p rocess.rb:44: > [BUG] Segmentation fault > > ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i386-mswin32] > > > > Can anyone help me with this? I tried running multiple small sessions in > multiple command windows but it didn't seem to help. > > > > This is also my first foray into the world of open-source mailing lists, so > if I've made an etiquette violation, please forgive me. > > > > Thanks, > > Michael Sofaer > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > Wtr-general@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
