About Simulating Virtual Users on Multiple Workstations

To test your server performance under a massive load, you need to simulate dozens or hundreds of virtual users. However, simulating a huge number of virtual users consumes the CPU, memory and other resources, and may cause system overload and invalid results.

Due to certain operating system limitations, the maximum number of concurrent virtual users that LoadComplete can simulate on a single computer is 2000. In your load tests, you can assign only this many virtual users to a single workstation. To simulate more virtual users, you need to use extra workstations.

Another reason for simulating virtual users on remote workstations is to emulate real-life conditions when different users are working with the web server from different computers.

In LoadComplete, you can add remote stations to your test project and simulate virtual users on them during the test run. For each virtual user or group of virtual users, you can select a station where the user or users will simulate traffic.

To simulate virtual users on remote computers, you use the LoadComplete Remote Agent utility. All the computers where you want to simulate virtual uses must have the utility installed and running. The utility can simulate up to 2000 concurrent virtual users on the computer where it is installed.

For more information on requirements load stations must meet, see Requirements. For information on preparing your remote station for distributed load testing, see Setting Up Remote Agent Stations.

See Also

Distributed Testing
Tips on Simulating Users in Distributed Tests
Load Testing With LoadComplete