Load Testing in the Cloud

Drupal

Load Testing Drupal - Anonymous Users

Posted Mon, 09/28/2009 - 12:28pm by Lawrence Nuanez

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A Little Cache Goes a Long Way

Drupal is the target of load testing for this series of articles. If this is your first time reading any of the articles in this series, please review the introduction and summary called Load Testing Drupal for a good context of what we are doing.

Load Testing Drupal

Posted Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:25am by Scott Price

load testing DrupalDrupal is one of the most popular open source content management platforms and is being adopted at ever larger organizations because of its powerful features.

Our team is conducting load testing against copies of Drupal on various sizes of EC2 instances. We intend to establish performance benchmarks for Drupal version 6.x.

Performance Tuning Drupal - 10 Good Links

Posted Wed, 09/09/2009 - 10:45am by Scott Price

I was in a meeting this morning with our development team, and we have a desire to run some load tests against Drupal. We want to find out how Drupal performs on a standard Amazon EC2 small instance. We believe LoadStorm can do a good job of stressing an out-of-the-box Drupal application implementation. Not sure if we want to use a LAMP or MS stack yet, and we are open for suggestions.

Anybody interested in this type of tech study?

Drupal Load Test using LoadStorm

Posted Mon, 12/15/2008 - 4:06pm by Christian Romano

We are planning a load test of a basic LAMP Drupal target system using LoadStorm. This provides a description of the necessary environment on the system, a walk-through of testing steps, and expected results from the load test. LoadStorm does not require the user to setup large amounts of servers for an isolated test.

The Test Environment

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