On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Tim Donohue wrote:
(2) We currently don't have a centralized server with enough test data
to run many of these memory or scalability tests on our own. I think
this is something we could look into improving upon (especially if
anyone has test data to donate to the cause).
There's a lot of Creative Commons licensed content in the DSpace-sphere.
Perhaps an effort to gather what various sites are willing to donate into a
DuraSpace repository would give us the amount of data we need, as well as
beneficial heterogeneity in said data? Perhaps beyond this (and certainly
there would be other considerations here) it could be set up in such a way that
the data could be (extremely) easily replicated into one's test environment to
put an instance through its paces?
I agree with Robin T.
that it is in everyone's interest to improve our performance testing
prior to each release. I'd also encourage Graham (and others) to share
their testing routes so that we can work to make this happen, and start
to locate these performance issues *before* new releases, rather than after.
Pursuant of a first step in this direction (and one that would help me
personally), I'd like to ask if anyone out there has an Apache JMeter test plan
file that is/could be generalized for use stressing any DSpace application. I
know that each instance has its own customizations, URL patterns, areas to
stress, etc. but there is a lot that could be covered generally for any
implementation. Does this exist out there? I have always just cobbled
together a very simplistic setup that hits the front page, community-list, some
particular items and URLs. Perhaps we can collaboratively build one out with
everyone's input.
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