webapplicationstresstool

We are using JMeter in a heterogeneous environment and we would like to measure CPU and memory while we are producing heavy load on a server where our service or web application is running. What would you recommend to use? Is there any software solution (open source or commercial) available which records CPU and memory usage in a file or to a database? Thank you! zengr From the java perspective, you can use jconsole or write your own code to monitor the memory usage. Measure CPU and memory consumption of a Java application javasysmon on github dstat for linux and perfmon for windows. Read more

In the past, I used Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool and Pylot to stress test web applications. I'd written a simple home page, login script, and site walkthrough (in an ecommerce site adding a few items to a cart and checkout). Just hitting the homepage hard with a handful of developers would almost always locate a major problem. More scalability problems would surface at the second stage, and even more - after the launch. The URL of the tools I used were Microsoft Homer (aka Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool ) and Pylot . The reports generated by these tools never made much sense to