Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by ninetax on Saturday February 23, 2013 @09:47PM
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Could you also use it to load test a web app?
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Re:Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop
by jlogsdon on Saturday February 23, 2013 @10:12PM
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You wouldn't need a fake network to load test a web app, and you'd end up being CPU bound for a good load test (as in, the load tester would be CPU bound, obviously you want the app to become maxed in CPU usage). AWS is actually great for doing something like this.
The Chicago Tribune actually released a tool to do load testing with AWS instances: http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2010/07/08/bees-with-mac...