Re: Best way to mimic the load we get normally.

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

Hi Gregory,

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Greg Patmore <gr...@sl...> wrote:

>
>
> When I’ve run the test with as many as 3,000 clients in the configuration I
> sent, I was getting very good response times in the test, however, when I
> tried to click around the site in a browser I was getting much worse
> results.
>
 Browsers are (naturally) better representing the user-side of experience,
since they are
fetching all the images at a page (unless you placed your images separately
in your URLs)
and in parallel.

For user-experience you better to rely on your experience with a browser run
in parallel.

> But, am I correct in my assumption of what it’s actually doing?  Ramping up
> to 1000 users will start sending 1000 requests to each url in the list when
> it hits the max clients?
>
Since this is TCP and HTTP protocols, it depends also at your network and
server resources.
You can see the numbers of requests in statistics at screen - summary and
recent time-interval (3 seconds by default).
Beside that you see the CAPS.

If a server does not have enough resources to respond fast, it will be
slower.

What is for sure, it mimics 1000 users trying to deal with your server.

-- 
Truly,
Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D.
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