hbouma
04-20-2002, 01:46 PM
Hi,
Does anyone stress test their new servers before going live with it to make sure it runs okay? If you do, what type of tests do you run? I've seen posts where people say their machines fail when the load gets high, and I was wondering if anyone tries to test for that before putting customers on the server. Thanks for your input.
Hal
porcupine
04-20-2002, 02:11 PM
Originally posted by hbouma
Hi,
Does anyone stress test their new servers before going live with it to make sure it runs okay? If you do, what type of tests do you run? I've seen posts where people say their machines fail when the load gets high, and I was wondering if anyone tries to test for that before putting customers on the server. Thanks for your input.
Hal
echo find /* > kill.sh
echo find /* >> kill.sh
echo ./kill.sh >> kill.sh
chmod 700 kill.sh
./kill.sh
leave that running for a few days :) I think i got the syntax for the echo there right, but just running that, should give you 100% load after awhile, and give your server a cheap way of doing some minimal stress testing :)
Mike the newbie
04-20-2002, 07:12 PM
I use OpenSTA to simulate the load of many concurrent users on the website.
Look at this thread (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35673) for more details.
ToastyX
04-20-2002, 07:54 PM
Originally posted by porcupine
echo find /* > kill.sh
echo find /* >> kill.sh
echo ./kill.sh >> kill.sh
chmod 700 kill.sh
./kill.sh
leave that running for a few days :) I think i got the syntax for the echo there right, but just running that, should give you 100% load after awhile, and give your server a cheap way of doing some minimal stress testing :)
Linux caches though, so after the first find, it doesn't really do much work. The logical load would be high but the physical load wouldn't be.
