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abhishek813
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14 years ago

Load test using Soapui

Hi,

We are using SoapUI to perform Load test, Script strategy. We faced following issues, could you please help me resolve them-
1. Our load test scenario is, keep increasing thread count for 4 hours, increment 1 thread every 3 seconds, when it reaches the peak, keep the load constant for 2 hours and decrease it in same manner as the increment. We observed that-
We started executing load test at Sat Sep 03 12:52:03 ADT with thread count 1
The test executed till Sep 03 13:27:31 ADT and got strucked at 1024 threads.
After that since the webservice was getting connection time out, the SoapUI stopped responding.
I killed the process at Sep 03 13:44:39 ADT

Could you please suggest if-
We can keep a track of the thread that is currently executing and kill it in case its taking more than required time, is it a feasible solution?
Does increasing socket timeout can help?
If we divide this load among 2 machines, will it help resolve the issue. Coz the CPU usage reaches its peak and may be because of that the soapui stops responding?

Is there any other thing that comes to your mind?
i will be waiting for your response.
Thanks
  • Hi!

    Have you tried running your soapUI tests in loadUI?
    It has support for running a tests on multiple machines and much more.

    Please check it out at http://www.loadui.org

    --
    Regards

    Erik
    SmartBear Sweden
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    abhishek813
    Frequent Contributor
    I have tried loadUI but that isn't any better in memory management when compared with soapUI
  • Hi,

    how did you configure your loadUI setup? How many agents did you use? How long did the test run? What kind of memory problems were you experiencing?

    regards!

    /Ole
    SmartBear Software
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    abhishek813
    Frequent Contributor
    In loadUI i have not changed the default settings and i am using 3 agents. all three agents had a memory usage of > 700,000. In addition to this loadUI would frequently hang and the components would take a long time to render.

    -Abhishek