[Opensim-users] Load Testing

[Dave Coyle]

On 2009-03-04 22:58:11 -0500, mariusz at nowostawski.org wrote:
> Load testing by assembling users in an ad-hoc manner has its place,
> and it might be a good way of keeping track of certain server-side
> behaviour and user experiences.

And that's the intent.  Obviously having a different number of avs do
different things on different OpenSim revs running on different
boxes running different operating systems connected to different
networks and attached to a public grid each week isn't going to
produce a list of "x causes y" results.  That's not what I'm after,
with this meetup, anyway.

Every day someone asks on #opensim "what kind of hardware do I need to
run OpenSim?", and the answer is always "it depends" and/or "here's
what I run, try that".  There aren't enough published data points for
someone to even begin to guestimate where to start.  Yes, OpenSim is
changing rapidly, and what happily runs it today may crash and set
fire tomorrow.  But some people would still find the data useful.

There's also a social aspect to it.  Formal, reproducable testing
under controlled conditions has its place.  As does hosting 15 people
from around the world on your own little piece of this wild frontier.

-Coyle