Some on the team assess the situation as an indication that CAS can not keep up with the load. Others suspect the tool itself, which must now contend with browser redirects while simulating a high volume of users.
We do quite a bit of load testing of our CAS infrastructure at Virginia Tech, and I can say from experience that tools and environment matter. That said I don't believe tools are suspect in this case.
2013-09-05 07:40:39,178 ERROR [org.jasig.cas.web.view.Saml10SuccessResponseView] - ClientAbortException: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
This is happening at the moment CAS is attempting to send the SAML 1.1 service validation response to the client. In my experience, and on many references on the Web as well, this particular error occurs when the _client_ closes the connection during the write operation. That suggests that the problem is on the CAS client host, not the CAS server. The CAS client in this case is Banner/BEIS components.
Is CAS incapable of accepting more than 250 simultaneous login attempts without failure?
Yes. Any modern, capable server hardware or VM platform should be able to accommodate that without even breaking a sweat.
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