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Stress Test
Hi everyone, my name is Luis, and im doing some research about monitoring systems.
I wanted make some stress tests to apache & pandora.
My first idea is to use ab (Apache Benchmark) to simulate massive requests to the tactical view page(like there were many operators checking or whatever). If im not wrong i should firstly save a cookie in order to freely access the webpage im testing, and afterwards use it as my validation to skip the login webpage and directly access tactical view. Am i right about this?
I also want to try multiple agents on a machine, is there any tool designed to create multiple agents?
As you all probably work on big environments, did you firstly test the avability of the system on running lots of agents? How did you do it?
Thanks in advance.
Any suggestion about how to test performance of apache & pandora will be very useful. 😉
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4 Replies
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Yes, I suggest to use another method to test it, because as you said, you need to work with cookies and form parameters, AB is focused on speed of request, but not handle complex request.
Take a look at goliat project (also us ! 🙂 in http://goliat.sourceforge.net it was created to do web stress tests, has some bugs, but is pretty functional.
About the multiple agents, check the meta agent in SVN repository, is not as complete as the latest linux agent, but is completely functional, and it’s used just for that, running several agents in the same system.
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Thank you for the answer,
Im trying to install goliat on my ubuntu 9.04, and when trying to install it, I got a message:
Warning: prerequisite treads::shared 0 not found. Writing Makefile for Goliat
so i tried to install it:
#cpan -i threads::shared
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /home/administrador/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Tue, 19 May 2009 18:26:59 GMT
threads::shared is up to date (1.28).So I checked up the Makefile.pl and correct me if wrong but thread is misspelled to tread. That’s why I couldn’t install it.
Sorry if wrong forum to tell you about this.
Ill try to start the test.
Thank you again.
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