Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by omarish » Sun, Mar 16, 2008, 6:31 PM UTC

siege

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by staunch » Sun, Mar 16, 2008, 7:45 PM UTC

I use ab for simple things and siege for more involved benchmarking. I write my own functionality tests in Perl with WWW::Mechanize for monitoring.

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by ericb » Sun, Mar 16, 2008, 8:10 PM UTC

I'm working on a hosted load testing solution for this type of problem. Specifically, it will let you run full transactions against a web front-end. You record a script with your web browser and then upload it, and run a mass of virtual users executing those steps.

If you want an update when it's ready, shoot me an email. On gmail, I'm ebeland.

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by henning » Sun, Mar 16, 2008, 8:30 PM UTC

JMeter. I have an ant task that does it automatically.

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by dmharrison » Sun, Mar 16, 2008, 9:57 PM UTC

The grinder http://grinder.sourceforge.net/ (write your scripts in jython) for unit and nightly runs and for large scale testing on partners hardware HP (formerly mercury) Load Runner https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_conten...

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by gordonguthrie » Sun, Mar 16, 2008, 10:00 PM UTC

Tsung (http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/) - an Erlang-based performance testing tool.

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by nickb » Mon, Mar 17, 2008, 2:19 AM UTC

dmharrison wrote: post #15

The grinder http://grinder.sourceforge.net/ (write your scripts in jython) for unit and nightly runs and for large scale testing on partners hardware HP (formerly mercury) Load Runner https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_conten...

How much does Load Runner cost? Thousands of $$?

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by sfalbo » Mon, Mar 17, 2008, 2:30 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #14

JMeter. I have an ant task that does it automatically.

I like JMeter too. I've just started using it and I've been very happy with it.

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by christefano » Mon, Mar 17, 2008, 4:06 AM UTC

Apache JMeter and ApacheBench.

Re: Ask YC: What do you use to stress test your app/db?

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Post by dmharrison » Mon, Mar 17, 2008, 7:28 AM UTC

nickb wrote: post #17

dmharrison wrote: post #15

The grinder http://grinder.sourceforge.net/ (write your scripts in jython) for unit and nightly runs and for large scale testing on partners hardware HP (formerly mercury) Load Runner https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_conten...

How much does Load Runner cost? Thousands of $$?

Yep, ridiculously expensive, grinder is good enough. In the enterprisey space where my day job is, load runner has a certain reputation (despite whether it deserves it or not). We found with the open source or cheaper tools (IBM rational tools included) under really high loads logging, measurements and the tools themselves got flaky. When you've got extremely limited time and hard deadlines in a hardware lab, time is the most precious commodity, so the cost can be worth it.