What hardware factors may be considered bottlenecks on a Hyper-V virtual server during load testing? [closed]

It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 9 years ago. Our organization is load testing our application using … Read more

How to artificially open many tcp connection on a host (testing)? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I’m trying to build a test setup which test my server’s performance under high load. In order to do that I want to … Read more

JMETER: Which requests to load

The question is about load testing a web application, in order to find out server capacity (I should answer the question: For how many users using my web application, the server can handle the requests without any abnormality). The web application has many requests like Login, save records, search and …. (so many requests) In … Read more

Do routers and networks have have a “max threads” configuration? [closed]

Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I’ve been stress testing my application now and I’ve identified a high average network connection … Read more

How can I make a server or PC use the most electrical power it is ever likely to?

I have several servers connected to a UPS. I would like to try and get those servers to draw the most power they are likely to as a load test of the UPS. What is the best way to cause a server or PC to draw its maximum power? One machine is running Windows Server … Read more

Record and replay HTTP requests/posts between a given period of time (Apache)

Disclaimer: I know that what I’m about to ask is not even close to best practices but due to very specific requirements, I see this as probably one of very few solutions. Context: We wish to replicate the Production environment entirely for stress, load, functional and integration testing. We have done the necessary deployments for … Read more

Possible DOS Attack or computer “freak out”

I am a dev-ops web developer with a site running two ec2.smalls behind a load balancer on AWS. Recently we saw 3-4 requests per second take down our clients site. The site was down and would not come back after multiple server reboots and errors log scans for any scripts that might be causing the … Read more

Has anyone done a load test on AWS free tier? What is the crash point? [closed]

Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I think the capacity of AWS EC2 t2.micro instance is too low. I was sending … Read more

Request bursting from web application Load Tests

I’m migrating our web and database hosting to a new environment on all new machines. I’ve recently performed a Load Test using WAPT to generate load from multiple distributed clients. The server has plenty of room to handle the traffic load, but I’m seeing an odd pattern of incoming traffic during the load tests. Here … Read more