Test Environment Documentation

Scalability_testing >> Test Environment Documentation

Testing environment for use in Scalability Testing of Archivematica 1.0.

Initial specs:

5 virtual machines set up using kvm. All running XUbuntu 12.04.

1. vm1 - running mcp server and mysql
2. vm2, vm3, vm4 - running mcp clients
3. vm5 - monitor, running munin and/or collectd

The hardware resources allocated to each vm will be altered between test runs to create different test configurations.

Monitoring

Required metrics:

Operating System - cpu usage - user, system, idle, waiting io stats - tps (transactions per second) as well as reads per second, writes per second memory usage - total memory used, total swap used

Mysql - total number of connections mysql memory and cpu usage mysql buffer cache usage

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