Load Testing X11 Servers? · Slashdot Mirror

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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Uh.. it comes with Xfree86 by GiMP · 2002-04-24 13:28 · Score: 4, Interesting

x11pref, included with Xfree86 is a great benchmarking utility. If you don't want to test your graphics and only network utilization, use Xvfb rather then rendering to a video device...