Re: [OpenSTA-users] reliability problems in OpenSTA - looking for your feedback

[Bernie V. <Ve...@ix...>]

Danny,

I have been using OpenSTA 1.4.1 for 6 months now on 3 different revenue
engagements. It has lowered the cost of doing performance characterization
projects to the point of generating new business for my company with smaller
clients that could not justify the $50K to $100K for hardware and emulation
software.

I have used it under XP, XP Professional, and Win 2K. I'd be happy to
provide more information off line. The downside is lack of support, so-so
documentation, and in general it is more labor intensive to model scripts
compared to other HTTP(/S) emulators.

-Bernie Velivis

Performax, Inc
2 Colburn Lane
Hollis NH
03049
(603) 860 7900

Performax provides scripting, benchmarking, bottleneck analysis, code
optimization, capacity modeling, and tuning services for a variety of
emulation tools, operating systems, application servers, and databases.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Faught" <fa...@te...>
To: <ope...@li...>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: [OpenSTA-users] reliability problems in OpenSTA - looking for your
feedback


> I just wrote a review of OpenSTA for my Open Testware Reviews service
> (http://tejasconsulting.com/open-testware/).  I had a lot of trouble
> getting it to work (some of which is reflected in the stack of bugs I
> filed recently).
>
> But it seems that some of you folks are using it without much trouble.
> Can anyone report that OpenSTA is generally working well for them?  If
> so, are you using the 1.4.1 release, or are you building from sources
> newer than that?  What version of Windows are you using?
>
> I found OpenSTA practically unusable on my Windows 2000 system.  The
> Name Server crashes every time it starts after a reboot, it won't record
> tests using IE 5, and it won't run tests.  I had a bit more success on
> NT, but most of the test results windows are blank, and features
> sometimes stop working at random.  Various OpenSTA processes crashed
> when driving a heavy load.
>
> Somebody give a sanity check, if maybe there's something particular to
> my own environment that's making the tool look worse than it really is.
> --
> Danny R. Faught
> Tejas Software Consulting
> http://tejasconsulting.com/
>
>
>
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