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Load testing is type of performance testing conducted to evaluate the behavior of a component or system with increasing load, e.g. numbers of parallel users and/or numbers of transactions, to determine what load can be handled by the component or system.

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How do you load test your application?

What is the most effective way to load to load test your app? The main point is to determine how many users you could support at a single time with the application still running at a reasonable speed.
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Cheap server stress testing

The IT department of the nonprofit organization I work for recently got a new virtual server running CentOS (with Apache and PHP 5), which is supposed to host our website. During the process of setting up the server I discovered that the slightest…
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stress test video streaming

is there a way to stress test video streaming? Basically simulating a high number of people simultaneously streaming a video? This is an amazon 'cloud' service that will be enabled for my site.
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How to compute page load time using JMeter

Could any one please tell me how to compute page load time using JMeter.? I have used the "View results in a table" listener but it displays only connect time.
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Do I need the exact same hardware and software to stress-test my site's capabilities?

Our site would need 2 boxes on the data center. But we don't have the spare money to buy the boxes so we plan to rent dedicated servers. But for the load testing box I have now, it's only one and it's a DELL low end server with only 1.5G memory.…
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How to test high load on a website?

Possible Duplicate: How do you load test your application? Hi, I am nearing a point of finalizing a website and it will soon be released. We have bought some traffic and advertisement packages and the nature of the site makes it heavier than…
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How to understand results of server load reports

I have performed a load test on on my website but don't understand if the result are good or bad. Here is the server spec: Server Linux/Ubuntu hardware (AMI on Amazon AWS) *-cpu:0 product: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz size:…
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How to replay traffic to web server from logs to profile / benchmark web app under real load?

Is there a way to get recorder real network traffic to web server, e.g. from web server logs (Apache), and replay this traffic to either profile web application (in Perl) under real load, or benchmark and compare speed of different implementations…
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JMeter: how to asign a single distinct value from CSV Data Set Config to each thread in thread group?

I have to make a load test for a relatively large number of users so I cant really use User Parameters pre-processor to parametrize each thread with custom user data. I've read that I should use CSV Data Set Config instead. However I run into a…
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What is an acceptable level of FPS in browser workslow editor?

I'm developing a diagraming tool and need some metrics to test it against. Unfortunately I couldn't find information regarding an average acceptable FPS level for this kind of web apps. We all know such levels for action games (which is 60fps…
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Why requests/Sec is very low in jmeter benchmarking while website serves so many users?

I've created a Thread Group to test my server load. In the following picture you can see that throughput is about 27 per min. The site is a high traffic website. Is jmeter precise on showing this data? How much we can trust it?
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how to cope with a 10 000 person accessing server in one hour?

I have a share hosting, and I charge 150$/years to host company website. Those websites have a maximum of 2000 person per month accessing the site, mostly WordPress site. So everything is fine until a person in Facebook, with 300 000 friend talk…
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Will DDoS testing one’s own site negatively impact networks between me and my site?

I’ve been planning to DDoS test my own site to see the capacity of my site, but gave up at last cause I saw this word of advice: DDOS attack does not magically reach to the target. It will violate many innocent network infrastructures. If this is…
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How to make sure that my web application would be stable?

Possible Duplicate: How do you load test your application? Hi, I have finished 95% of my web application. Now, I would like to make sure that the website is stable even with 5000 or more concurrent connections. How do you test??
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I load tested my website by auto-refreshing it in multiple tabs, will Google see those all as bounces that hurt my SEO?

I wanted to load test my server and I thought of adding chrome auto refresh, set it to 10-15sec then open 30 tabs of my website. Wanted to know how many simultaneous site loads my server can handle. It did spike up... Did refreshing my website in…
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