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WebLOAD`s load generator can simulate hundreds (and even thousands) of virtual users executing a wide range of internet protocols. WebLOAD maximizes hardware resources by minimizing the size of the footprint a virtual user consumes, thus enabling more virtual users on the existing load generator hardware. The number of virtual users is limited only by the memory capacity of the load generator server. The load generator provides comprehensive support for HTTP and HTTPS protocols and other HTTP based protocols such as AJAX, SOAP/XML.
Since WebLOAD is a distributed system, it is possible to deploy unlimited load generators in or outside the firewall, generating unlimited amounts of load. During test execution, the load generator also collects an extensive range of client side statistics. While it collects the most detailed/low level performance statistics such as "connect time" for every TCP/IP connection, it is also capable of tracking the performance of a group of commands, defined by the user as a logical transaction.
Load generator health is an important factor to the success and accuracy of the load test. To that extent load generator performance metrics (CPU and memory usage) are automatically added to any load session. This helps in hardware optimization and to avoid errors resulting from load-generator overloading.
The Load Generator component is cross platform and can run on Windows as well as Linux machines.
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