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[Shay Ginsbourg]

A global center of World Records for Loading & Performance Testing is being established this month.

The most interesting data will be shared with our forum readers.

In order to take part in this project, please describe your Loading & Performance Testing achievements as follows:

What is the biggest load/performance/scalability test that you have ever done?
What commercial or open source tools were used? Which versions?
How many concurrent virtual users were simulated? Which types? What was their memory footprint?
What was the peak Hits per Second value (and other important load parameters)?
How many Windows or UNIX hosts were required for creating the load? How much RAM was involved?

If offline analysis was performed for bottleneck pinpointing, how much disk space was required for collating all the results?
Did you find those results consistent with the on-line monitors that were operated during the test run?

Share your technical experiences with us at: sginsbourg@gmail.com

Shay Ginsbourg

www.Ginsbourg.com

[Ragan Shearing]

The largest load test which comes to my mind is not one I worked on (darn).  I'll give the details to the best of my knowledge.  The specific project was during the 2000 election.  Overall the goal was to gauge immediate feedback from the presidential debates.  The anticipated volume was 50,000 hits/second for an hour.  While I don't remember much more, I do recall this was done in cooperation with Mercury and several other companies at the time.  If I'm not mistaken, Mercury donated or leased the virtual users at a steep discount.  Otherwise the cost would have been too much.  If I can dig up more details, I'll post them.

My boss at the time was on the project.  However, his memory and technical ability don't really extend past the end of his nose.  Otherwise, I'd get more details from him.  At least for his sake, he deals with marketing and selling rather than technical.

Hopefully this will lead to more responses posted.
Ragan