[Opensim-users] Load Testing OpenSim

[Lindy McKeown]

How about this for a load test...

ScienceSim demos 1,000 avatars on a
sim<http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/06/sciencesim-demos-1000-avatars-on-a-sim/>
By Maria Korolov <http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/author/maria-korolov/>
The Intel-backed ScienceSim grid, running the open source OpenSim virtual
world server software, ran a demo with over 1,000 avatars in a single region

Video at http://www.archive.org/details/Scienesim1000AvatarLoadTest2


Lindy

On 21 June 2010 16:32, Mister Blue <misterblue at misterblue.com> wrote:

> I have been doing manual load testing and I am starting to look at more
> automation.
>
> I have found that TestClient bots that do something (walk around, chat), in
> aggregate, give a load pretty close to a "normal" viewer load.  I have been
> using scripts that start up groups of bots that walk around (waypoint to
> waypoint) but I don't have good scenarios of what large numbers of avatars
> realistically do in a region.
>
> Testing the load of a large number of clients requires a lot of
> infrastructure -- multiple client systems and a lot of networking. That
> makes stress testing difficult to set up and to create a portable, automated
> stress tester.
>
> -- mb
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I know we broached this subject some time ago but I was wondering if
>> anyone
>> had eventually developed some method for doing an automated load test? If
>> so, what software and parameters were involved? I also discovered this
>> wealth of open source load testing software and thought it might be
>> helpful
>> somehow at http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Robert
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