It's very much fun to stress test one of your own servers and see how well it handles huge traffic loads 😊

its not fun when someone else does🙃

Did it live? I killed one that way the other day. It was fun

@calmyourtities That's what firewalls are for 😋

@linuxxx how are you stress testing? Is it just a http get request which is the same as just pressing f5. Or are you simulating a path through the app?

@windlessuser For now just stress testing with a tool called Siege. will do some better tests tomorrow :)

@linuxxx can you link the github page?

@windlessuser No clue if it has one, just search engine 'siege stress testing' or something :)

@linuxxx https://github.com/JoeDog/siege/...

@linuxxx what other tests are you going to do, owasp?

SYN flood is fun :)

@linuxxx just go with a proper caching flow, except if it's critical.!?
http://nodans.com/index.cfm/2012/...

@linuxxx also how much are you testing for, I finally got to try siege out and it really chokes @ 1000 concurrent users and googling it, it seems to be a common case, do you test with less?

@JoshBent 500-800 concurrent :)

@linuxxx ah ye with ~800 it doesnt choke as much it seems, though I guess I can't change away from loader.io then, because it allows 10k concurrent users per second to check for extreme load and optimize, also what are you going to test your server with else, since you said you'll test with something else today too.

When you try to stress test production, but instead your "attack" machine collapses under the load...

Load testing is really important, it shows the performance of your code and your chosen runtime

Those numbers sound really small for real load testing though. Or maybe the server has just very small capacity?

Generally I wouldn't use siege, it has some performance issues and it's just not very precise

@vinerz that service seems to only support up to 10,000 simultaneous clients for free. After that you start paying 100 USD per month

2 minutes later...

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I forgot to git commit and fire, ahhhhhh

@vertti 10k users per second is quite a good loadtest, if you need something beyond that, 100$ will be def. the smallest problem.

@vertti also what do you test with?

@JoshBent depends on what I want to test, but usually tsung or amoc. Never paid more than 1 EUR per one massive distributed test run on many different machines.

@vertti could you link amoc? I can't find it at all, only a job listing talking about it.

@JoshBent
Https://github.com/esl/amoc

However, it's for load testing sockets/xmpp