That's a great idea, we'll publish the load testing tools soon. For KIXMPP, 
we've prioritized the implementation of features in the spec based on our needs 
- we're hoping to get the open source community involved to help us complete it 
and add features such as server-to-server federation.


As for the spaces vs. tabs issue - we have some engineers using Eclipse and 
some using Intellij; it's an unfortunate side-effect. KIXMPP is probably due 
for a project-wide format fix. ;)


Cheers,

EB


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From: JDev <[email protected]> on behalf of Waqas Hussain 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:27 PM
To: Jabber/XMPP software development list
Subject: Re: [jdev] Missing XMPP Library, Server, and Client

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Elvir Bahtijaragic 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi Waqas,


Actually the project was added about 3 months ago 
(https://github.com/Kixeye/kixmpp/graphs/commit-activity).


This project has an interesting history. Initially it started as an efficient 
load testing client for testing Openfire - we are able to simulate 15000 
clients on a xlarge instance on AWS. Other XMPP clients were unable to handle a 
large number of XMPP clients on a single instance, i.e. Smack had tons of 
memory leaks and Tigase was extremely inefficient in processing stanzas. Soon 
after load testing Openfire we realized that it performs extremely poorly under 
load and is completely unstable in a clustered environment. So we dropped 
Openfire and implemented our own XMPP server - using high-performance computing 
design patterns. Our requirement was to reach 500,000 simulated chatting 
clients - but we never actually hit a limit in our load tests. Based on our 
load testing parameters: a million simulated clients caused the server to 
output 230,000 message stanzas per second with a load average of 6 on a 32 core 
box using only 30% memory on average.


Thanks! We will add more documentation soon. Currently it's meant to be used as 
a library and enable any Java application to embed a XMPP client or XMPP server.


Regards,

Elvir B.

That's very informative. The performance and memory usage numbers are 
impressive. It would be great if you could publish your load testing tools as 
well, so other server vendors can compare. I know I'd like to benchmark 
Prosody, the server I work on.

Unless I missed it, the server is missing server-to-server federation. Is this 
something you plan to add?

Again, great job on the project and thanks for releasing this. I like the code 
quite a bit. My biggest complaint so far is mixed tabs and spaces in many of 
the files :)

--
Waqas Hussain

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