Load Testing X11 Servers?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday April 23, 2002 @11:39PM from the how-many-monkeys dept.

An Anonymous Coward asks: "There is a site that wishes to test more than 450 users running thin-client X on a server without having to have 450 client terminals. Is there a simple method to do this. So far I've thought of the following options: 1) recording X network packets then sending them from multiple dummy 'clients' on the same PC. (This was done during the Mindcraft benchmarking episode by simulating 'netbench'). 2) some sort of scripting process that can simulate typical X11 usage on the server. Unfortunately, expensive load testing software is not an option."

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get it /.-ed by dizzyPhoenix · 2002-04-24 02:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Yep, just make it available on the net and post the address on /.

I'm sure you'll manage to get some very thorough load testing done ;-)
Even better idear... by jo42 · 2002-04-24 04:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Open up your network to the X protocol. Post relevant network info and have thousands of rabid Linux freeks load test it for you.