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Thanks Alex. I've been using jMeter for a while now and for the most part it's fine. I was wondering if there were any more Ruby/Rails oriented tools that could be incorporated into our project, but it looks like for now I'll be sticking with jMeter for development and probably blitz.io for production.
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<div><div><br></div><div>Tourbus looks very cool though, so I'll take a closer look at that too.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Ed James</div><div>Sent with <a href="http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig">Sparrow</a></div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Monday, 2 July 2012 at 09:53, Alex Reis wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Might be overkill for your needs, but I tend to use Apache JMeter a</div><div>lot, since that lets you record (and edit) user sessions, then play</div><div>them back with a ramping up number of threads, different scenarios and</div><div>with some programming capabilities (loops, ifs, variables). It can</div><div>also be used to coordinate a test launching in multiple hosts so you</div><div>don't get to exaust the capacity on your machine before the server</div><div>feels it like others said.</div><div><br></div><div>There's also the Tourbus library for what it's worth -</div><div><a href="https://github.com/dbrady/tourbus/">https://github.com/dbrady/tourbus/</a> - if you have good capybara-ish</div><div>tests, you can turn them into realistic load test scenarios easily.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Ed James (Alt) <<a href="mailto:ed.james.spam@gmail.com">ed.james.spam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Thanks for the feedback all - really helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Ed James</div><div>Sent with Sparrow</div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, 29 June 2012 at 19:29, John Arundel wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>On 29 Jun 2012, at 17:53, Stephen Bartholomew wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>What about using ab (apache benchmark)?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div><br></div><div>I've also used httperf, and autobench (a wrapper allowing you to co-ordinate</div><div>httperf attacks from a whole bunch of machines). I usually find that I'll</div><div>exhaust the outbound bandwidth of my load-generator machine well before I</div><div>hit capacity on the server I'm testing, so a distributed autobench setup is</div><div>useful in this situation.</div><div><br></div><div>You can generate realistic user sessions by taking snippets of your web logs</div><div>and using httperf to replay them (for example, logging in as a test user,</div><div>viewing some product pages, adding some items to your shopping cart, going</div><div>to the checkout - stuff that exercises the whole stack and generates</div><div>database writes). I find this often gives very different (and sometimes</div><div>alarming) results compared to simply fetching the home page a million times.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>John</div><div>--</div><div>Bitfield Consulting: we make software that makes things work</div><div><a href="http://bitfieldconsulting.com">http://bitfieldconsulting.com</a>/</div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div></div></blockquote><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div></div></div></span>
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