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Questions tagged [load-testing]

The load-testing tag is for issues relating to the setting up or running of load tests.

Load testing is end-to-end performance testing under anticipated production load, which determine response times for various time critical transactions and business processes.

As per wikipedia:

Load testing is the process of putting demand on a system or device and measuring its response.

Load testing is performed to determine a system’s behavior under both normal and anticipated peak load conditions. It helps to identify the maximum operating capacity of an application as well as any bottlenecks and determine which element is causing degradation.

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How can I safely estimate the max # of users based on a load test measurement like max hits/second?

In my specific case, I am working with websites, however the question is more general than that. What I’m looking for (I think) is something like a formula. The situation is that I’ve already done load testing to determine the breaking point of the…
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How to test a site with multiple concurrent users from various IPs (load test)?

I need to test a site and how it handles several connections simultaneously. Each user must: Connect from a different IP address Simulate a browsing user --> (open a few pages, click a few buttons) I need to simulate about 200 users like this.…
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Globally-distributed load testing service providers

We are looking for a third-party service providers to load-test our website infrastructure, preferably across multiple geos. Any recommendations? We have done internal load testing with Load Runner and JMeter, but we want to see the impact of global…
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Is there any way to test how many users an application can handle?

Possible Duplicate: How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites I am developing an PHP MYSQL application running on a Linux server I was wondering whether there is any way to test how many simultaneous users an application can…
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Can anyone please recommend any good Load Testing software?

Can anyone please recommend any good Load Testing software? I have a website which updates scores every minute via ajax calls and need a load testing software which supports ajax calls (javascript) too!
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simulate real traffic Load testing

The Client asked me to do a load test to see if autoscaling works fine, so used AB from few servers and start hitting it with requests. eventually, the whole thing scaled up to 10 t2.micrs and was serving 63k requests per min. When i proudly told…
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How to replay access logs in the presence of timing problem?

I'd like to replay the IIS or Tomcat access logs to do load testing. The access logs contain only Get request, so the session data/post data is not a problem here. However two timing problem is present at default IIS and Tomcat logs The access log…
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Load test (single client vs thousands of clients)

Hello Serverfault community, I am currently working on a .NET Web API that utilizes MS SQL as its backend to process data and return straightforward results. To ensure the API's performance and reliability, I've been conducting load tests using…
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