I need some help figuring out what I'm looking for, so bear with me. For a lot of distributed applications (web apps, distributed databases, etc) I have a need for a tool that can both execute benchmarks as well as collect data from the nodes under load, such as CPU, memory, disk ops and other performance related stats.
I've looked at Faban, but it frankly looks daunting to a sysadmin and more geared toward experienced Java programmers. There are plenty of good web load testers out there (jMeter, http_perf, The Grinder, etc) but they don't do data collection of the nodes performance, except to write your own extensions or correlate data manually from multiple sources. Can anyone point me in the right direction? So far only OpenSTA has looked like what I need but its only for Windows. I need something relatively easy to use and portable, something that I can extend but not entirely Java centric. I'm not a QA engineer and don't want to become one, I just want to get good corrolated stats the can show Transactions or Pages per second along with CPU/Mem/etc on each node. Frankly I'm not sure if this is "capacity planning" or "load testing" or a "benchmark harness". So maybe even just some clarification on what I think I'm looking for will help. ;) benr. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
