Tsung (formerly known as idx-Tsunami) is a
stress testing
Stress testing (sometimes called torture testing) is a form of deliberately intense or thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system, critical infrastructure or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, ...
tool written in the
Erlang language and distributed under the
GPL license. It can currently stress test
HTTP,
WebDAV,
LDAP,
MySQL,
PostgreSQL
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,
SOAP and
XMPP servers. Tsung can simulate hundreds of simultaneous users on a single system. It can also function in a clustered environment.
Features
Features include:
*Several
IP addresses
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.. Updated by . An IP address serves two main functions: network interface ident ...
can be used on a single machine using the underlying OS's IP Aliasing.
*OS monitoring (CPU, memory, and network traffic) using
SNMP,
munin-node agents or Erlang agents on remote servers.
*Different types of users can be simulated.
*Dynamic sessions can be described in
XML (to retrieve, at runtime, an ID from the server output and use it later in the session).
*Simulated user thinktimes and the arrival rate can be randomized via probability distribution.
*
HTML reports can be generated during the load to view response time measurements, server CPU, and other statistics.
References
External links
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Benchmarks (computing)
Erlang (programming language)
Load testing tools