Tool for performance tests

Tool for performance tests

by Stefan Prasse -
Number of replies: 8
Hello,
i support some moodle systems for my university for some weeks now.
We're looking for a tool which imitates f.e. 100 users using a course at the same time and gives perofmance data of the server.
I hope you now what i mean, if please tell me if there already exists something like this or give me ideas for develloping.

Thanks Stefan
Germany
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Re: Tool for performance tests

by Simon Hanmer -
When we were running our load testing we used JMeter from Apache - its free and we simulated 600 user loads quite happily - not particularly fast response times at that point, but at least we proved that the system could actually handle the load.

There more info at the apache site - http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

Simon
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Re: Tool for performance tests

by Jose' Coelho -

Hi Stefan,

I send you a paper publish in EDEN 2008, with the report of our performance tests.

We used Webstress Tool, and dstat.

Regards,
José Coelho

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Re: Tool for performance tests

by Stefan Prasse -
thanks for all your advices
just read a bit through it and saw that there is probably not "the" solution, but i'm sure i'll find one that matches to my problems.
Thanks
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Re: Tool for performance tests

by Stefan Prasse -
Hello, it's me again,
an other problem but not that different to open a new topic.

i found a nice stress tool called siege http://www.joedog.org/JoeDog/Siege
it sends http requests to different sites i tell the program.
The problem is that i dunno where to send the login data to.

I tried "/moodle/login/index.php POST username=user&password=secret"
it's the correct syntax for the program, but doesnt seem to work, cause when i try to get to courses after i get a http 303, so i think the site wants to redirect to the login page.
Havent i read the login.php the right way?

Please tell me my mistakes.

Have a nice day
Stefan
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Re: Tool for performance tests

by Tim Hunt -
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I think after the successful login, it wants to redirect you back to the site home page.
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Re: Tool for performance tests

by Stefan Prasse -
I meant an other GET Request after the login, so i send the login (probably false) and after a request to a course or another page where you need to be logged in and there i get the 303.

Hope its better for understanding now
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Re: Tool for performance tests

by Stefan Prasse -
Does nobody know the http POST Request for the login?

(sry for doublepost)