Stress Testing

[david thornton]

Randy Jonasz wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been given a server at work to "stress test" the hardware.  The
> server will be used as a java server, running tomcat.  Any suggestions
> for software to use?  I'm currently running memtest86.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Randy
>
you should stress test againt metric that matter to you. I've done a 
pile of stress testing over time. how many users at the same time? what 
application? Went you throw in some apache mysql  and java ... you need 
to test under various configs. Test at various levels of concurrency? 
what are you going to measure? hits per second? transactions per second?

Canned tools are good ( memtest , bonnie++ ), but tests for YOUR app are 
the best.

David

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