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LMAX aims to be the fastest trading platform in the world. Clearly, in order to achieve this we needed to do something special to achieve very low-latency and high-throughput with our Java platform. Performance testing showed that using queues to pass data between stages of the system was introducing latency, so we focused on optimising this area. The Disruptor is the result of our research and testing. We found that cache misses at the CPU-level, and locks requiring kernel arbitration are both extremely costly, so we created a framework which has "mechanical sympathy" for the hardware it’s running on, and that’s lock-free. ...

SPIZD stands for Stress Probing Invasive Zap Destructor; it's a command-line stress test tool used to determine how many simultaneous (concurrent) connections servers can handle. Protocols: http, pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps, smtp, smtps, ssh, radius.

xstress is a SMTP mail server stress testing tool. xstress creates multiple connections (using threads) to the (configured) mail server and sends mails with varying subject, body, attachment and TO/FROM addresses.

general purpose stress test tool. stressful instanciates Java classes which make stress on a target software.