Re: How should I do the load testing?

Brian Peasland wrote:
> emdproduction_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> > Group,
> >
> > We are using a new database link to a remote database. Most of the job
> > will be select data from this remote database.
> >
> > I need to run some load testing, simulating about 80 people to select
> > against this remote database at the same time, what is the best way to
> > do it? Open up 80 sqlplus sessions to run an dead loop pl/sql?
> >
> > Any better way of doing it? Or is there any software/script to do
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
>
> Use SQL Trace to capture your application's SQL statements into a trace
> file. You might want to use the 10046 trace with level 4 in order to
> capture bind variable values as well. You can start a level 4 10046
> trace with the following:
>
> alter session set events '10046 trace name context forever, level 4';
>
> Once you have your SQL statements captured in the dump file, you can
> mimic the application usage. Put all of these SQL statements in a
> script. Then you can run a shell script that does something similar to
> the following:
>
> conn="scott/tiger"
> participants=100
> while [ "$participants" -gt 0 ]
> do
> sqlplus $conn @$scriptname &
> participants=`expr $participants - 1`
> done
>
>
> The script above will run your SQL script for 100 participants, all in
> the background. That way, you can run them simultaneously. The variable
> "conn" contains the username/password.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>
>
> --

Brian,

Thanks for your help.

I just did what you suggested. But it is not simutaneously, it is sequencial. It will connect, disconnect, and then 2nd connect, disconnect.

Joe Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 14:03:45 CDT