Load Testing

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

Has anyone any experience of load testing. Need to load test a web app. Can you recommend a tool other than the microsoft one.

[RFH Reseller: Sol]

Try this:

http://www.opensta.org/

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

We purchased a copy of the following tool:

http://www.paessler.com/webstress

Once we had fixed a bug within windows regarding the limit of ip connection on the tcp stack we were able to flood the server with requests.

We tested the site and it cold easilly handle 400,000 page views per hour with first byte response being < 300 ms and full page load in less than 2 secs.