It’s important to know how many people a website server can handle at a given time. Tools like Siege and Gatling are open-source tools that can help. Stress testing tools such as Siege and Gatling make a given number of TCP connections to the target webserver. A typical web browser
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This article demonstrates how to run a basic website stress-test using Gatling2. See the previous article on how to install Galting2. In this example, i’m running Gatling2 from “/root/gatling2/”. Create a file in the “/root/gatling2/user-files/simulation/” directory called “MyTest1.scala” (/root/gatling2/user-files/simulation/MyTest1.scala). Add the following content to it: import io.gatling.core.Predef._ import io.gatling.core.session.Expression import
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Gatling is a website stress-testing tool. It runs on Java so you need to install JRE7. This article is based on CentOS 6.4. Note that “good” documentation for Gatling basically doesn’t exist. The website (http://gatling-tool.org/) doesn’t have much information and i can’t find anything significant elsewhere. So here are my
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