[ale] Java Applet Load Testing

[Greg Freemyer]

Resend (slightly edited) - I never got any replies to this.  Don't
know if it went out the first time or not.

On Feb 1, 2008 11:34 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've never user a commercial load test tool, but...
>
> I've been tasked with coming up with a plan to load test a Java
> Servlet / Applet we support.
>
> In the real world, our applet is only used 3 or 4 times a day per
> instance, but we have about 1000 concurrent instances running across a
> WAN.  From each IP, we only allow one simultaneous connection.  ie. If
> a new one comes in, we kill the old one.
>
> We already have a custom written load test that creates the same
> activity as the above, but from just 3 or 4 instances of a client
> Applet repeatedly performing transactions at high speed.
>
> Now we want to truly simulate the real environment complete with
> a few thousand simulated client machines sending in a
> very low volume of transactions.
>
> I'm thinking of utilizing a large VMware like server, etc. with
> hundreds or thousands of nearly identical virtual machines.  The disk
> image could be common, and most of RAM shared, but each one would need
> to have its own IP, but the rest of the RAM / disk could be shared.
>
> Is that feasible with any of the various VMs?  Is there a better
> approach?  I can likely get a little budget for a real tool if it will
> help.  Maybe not $100K for a tool, but a reasonable cost is ok.
> This whole project is for the 2009 budget year.
>
> Greg
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