I need to do some load and capacity testing of a couple of web servers, and need a commercial package. Why commercial, you ask? Well, I found JMeter, and it looked great... until I tried to distribute testing. It just refused to work. The documentation consists of "Do X, Y, and Z and it works!" Posting to the mailing list got "Did you do X? Did you do Y? Did you do Z? Oh, well, then we don't know why it doesn't work. Sorry" I need to pay for the software so my rejoinder will be "Not acceptable. Make it work" :-)
I need it to be able to coordinate several hosts in testing, since there's no way one machine is going to be able to saturate my clustered pool. Windows software is fine, as long as there's a Linux client for the slave machines (or vice-versa). And it would be really nice to be able to use an access_log as a test plan... I have plenty of real logs that will do quite nicely as a test case. Or, if anyone knows of another possible route to getting support for JMeter, that would help. But the people who wrote it are on the jmeter-users list, and if they can't (or don't want to) figure out what's wrong, I doubt anyone else will be able to, either. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
