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Hey first time poster.

Man, this load testing stuff can be messy. I've been looking at Selenium and Watir and WebDriver but they all seem to epically-fail when you try to run more than 5-6 copies at one time.

But you guys can run 100+... how can you DO that!?

Thanks

SamuelW wrote:Hey first time poster.

Man, this load testing stuff can be messy. I've been looking at Selenium and Watir and WebDriver but they all seem to epically-fail when you try to run more than 5-6 copies at one time.

But you guys can run 100+... how can you DO that!?

Thanks

Thanks for asking and welcome SamuelW.

How we get 100+ eValid instances is a combination of things.

(1) We use the THIN version of eValid, specially built to minimize the runtime footprint.

See:

http://www.e-valid.com/Products/Documen ... kthin.html

(2) There are some special machine adjustments that permit Windowes to run many browser copies.

Here are the instructions on this:

http://www.e-Valid.com/Products/Documen ... chine.html

(3) To get to 1,000 Browser Users (BUs) on one machine requires using multiple accounts and a VERY beefy machine. Each user account on Amazon's biggest offering -- what is often called their "quadruple extra large" machine -- accounts for 100 BUs, and 10 user accounts give us 1,000 BUs.

Notable, when all 1,000 eValid's are driving a web application we usually see CPU utilizations in the 10-20% range. So this hardly loads the machine.

-- eValid Support