Re: Application Center Test setting concurrent Users

From: Michael Pearson (michaelp_extrajunktoremove_at_televox.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:54:31 -0500

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 500 concurrent users 500 people clicking
the "submit" button at once? You might want to try 50-100 concurrent users
which should simulate about 500 non-concurrent users on the site.

Concurrent == at the same time

Michael

"Bob G" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2042a01c4593d$069fa760$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am running an ACT test to stress my web application. I
> have created my script, which seems to work fine. I want
> to run with 500 concurrent users, but when I do this it
> seems the test center sends all 500 requests at once, this
> is causing many of the connections to fail. What I would
> like to do is stagger the users hitting the submit button,
> this would be a more accurate test of the real world. Is
> there any way to do this. Also, once the test is running,
> with 500 users, does ACT wait until all connections have
> replied then hit the web server with another 500 requests,
> or does it run each connection on a seperate thread and
> send a new request each time a reply is recieved for a
> connection?
>
> Thank you,
> Bob G