[BNM] [bnm] load testing / stress testing etc.

[Nick Taylor]

Orrite

Anyone used this http://www.webload.org for load testing etc?

I've been playing with it for the last couple of hours... seems quite good
and the documentation is fairly in-depth... like there's about 6 pdfs etc,
but the FAQ doesn't seem to have an answer to my question which is WTF?

Because although I can get everything to go, I don't really understand what
the results mean.

It draws these graphs of:

Load Size
Hits per second
Round time
Throughput bytes/second

and there are setup parameters like :

Starting load size (5)
Concluding load size (10)

and I don't know what they are either - though I suspect they're the number
of concurrent sessions etc.

The bleeding obvious, in other words, is eluding me.

And what am I supposed to look for to improve site performance etc? Do I
just ramp up the load-sizes until the throughput grinds to a halt or are
there more nuanced approaches?

Looks like quite a cool bit of kit though. Does funcionality testing as well
by the looks.