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Load Testing a Phoenix app using siege
Does anyone have resources/books/posts that they can recommend for how to tune a Phoenix app? I have a Phoenix app running as part of an umbrella deployed to Gigalixir and I want to put it through its paces. I have downloaded Siege and wrk and I have tried hitting both my local and my Gigalixir deployment. I’m not wowed by any of the numbers I’m looking at… for comparison I’ve tried hitting some of the other PHP apps we have running, and the stats are in the same ballpark… in some cases, the error coming up with Phoenix are a lot higher (!). WRK reported more favorably, with Phoenix performing approximately 10x more connections handled per second.
I’ve started kicking the tires on the observer, and I was able to bring down the number of database connections I used, but really I’m just groping in the dark. Can anyone point to a tutorial or something that relevant?
Thanks!
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cmkarlsson
I’d recommend that you have a look at wrk2 (GitHub - giltene/wrk2: A constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk · GitHub) as well. It is especially written to consider something called coordinated omission (explained in the readme for wrk2 and there are some good talks on it as well if you search for it).
It also allows you to set the rate (perhaps wrk can do this today as well) of requests so that you don’t overload your system (unless that is what you are testing).
For more elaborate testing you have
- tsung (http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/). It feels a bit “old” but it pretty good. I think this is what was used when they tested the 2M web socket connections.
- gatling (https://gatling.io/) I found quite pleasant to work with.
benwilson512
benwilson512
I’m not sure what this means but this sounds more like a siege issue? 4k req/ sec from wrk on what is probably 1 CPU is really rather good particularly given that you’re also doing it over the general web.
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