stresstests.md

Running a stress test

Requiments

• osd2f is installed
• requirments_dev.txt dependencies are installed

In short

Stresstest help you pinpoint the amount of traffic your server is able to handle. OSD2F provides a script for the popular Python load-test library locust.

The files submitted are generated using the mock data generating scripts.

How to run a stress test

To run a stresstest, you require a running instance of OSD2F, either locally or on a reachable address. You can run the script from CLI (no interface) using:

locust \
    --host http://localhost:5000 \
    -f scripts/locust_stress_test.py \
    --headless \
    --users 100 \
    -t 60sec

where:

• host is the location of the server you want to stresstest
• -f points to the stress test file
• headless means no locust web interface is started
• users is the amount of concurrent users simulated. The script assumes each user will send 20 logs for each 1 call to anonymization and 1 call to submissions. For details, review the stresstest script.

important notes

• The data-sizes and ratio of logs/anomymization/submission calls should be based on empirical observations in your sample. Current numbers may not reflect those for your population or use-case.