[jdev] One million concurrent user

[Mickael Remond]

Heiner Wolf wrote:
>>Mutliple IP addresses.  Call it 60,000 available ports per IP 
>>address.  Realistically I have sourced 7,000 synthetic users 
> 
>>from a Compaq DL380 dual cpu box with 1 GB of memory. All 
> 
>>connections used SSL. (testing did not concern unencrypted 
>>connections.) At that point the Compaq DL380 was pretty much 
>>out of memory and evidence of virtual memory management 
>>activity was visible.
> 
> 
> This sounds like a quite realistic test. 
> I bow in admiration.

If I am not mistaken this was with the IDX-Tsunami benchmark tool. I am 
currently improving the test process, most notably to preload the users 
database with realistic roster size distribution. This has an important 
impact on the behaviour of the real server.

Benchmarking is really a fascinating and endless topic :-)

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