[TIP] Anyone using 'The Grinder' for load testing?

[Joseph Heck]

I haven't used Pylot, but I've used Grinder quite a bit in the past.

The setup was a bit quirky, but you could definitely drive some  
significant load and get reasonable data back. Some of the functions  
work *sometimes* - specifically the automatic distribution of scripts  
over a set of load generating hosts. I found I had to tweak things  
quite a bit to get the functionality I was wanting, and ended up  
working around what was built into Grinder in that respect.

I've also found that I got more use out of having all the logs  
separately, although that means a lot of data crunching to get  
averages and such.

-joe

On May 16, 2008, at 3:47 AM, Jesse Noller wrote:
> Have you looked at using pylot? http://pylot.org/
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Michael March <mmarch at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I'm about to join a project where they want me to use 'JMeter' to  
>> load
>> test part of the application. I used JMeter a LONG time ago and I was
>> never thrilled with it.  In any case, I started to search around of
>> alternative and I found "The Grinder" and it SEEMS to be awesome. Its
>> pure Java like JMeter, it seems to have a ton of great features and
>> best of all it uses Jython as its scripting engine.
>>
>> I haven't seem a peep about it on this list (which concerns me). Has
>> anyone used it?
>>
>> --
>> <admiral>
>>
>> Michael F. March ----- mmarch at gmail dot com
>>
>> "Seriously" - HSR
>>
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