Load testing (with openload) | Linux Today

Load testing (with openload)

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 22, 2009

“Now I know this system idles at 45/46 degrees celsius. It’s an
old AMD if you’re wondering why it’s so hot. Now let’s try the
stress testing through my LAN. My server’s LAN IP is 192.168.1.180.
The command used is ‘openload 192.168.1.180 5’. Where 192.168.1.180
is my server’s IP and 5 is the number of clients. The more clients
the more pain.

“As you can see on the left, that is htop showing my server load
before this test. As you can see I’ve tested openload just a couple
minutes before I took this screenshot. But let’s get going.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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