IDX-Tsunami/Tsung The load testing tool

I need a reliable load balancing test tool. Jmeter is available online as a free tool but it seems that it does not provide more in depth test results.

I manage to search online that there is a free load balance tool and i decide to check it out and use it to test it in my Linux machine before i introduce & recommend this tool to test the applications i developed at work.

Here are some of the introductions of Tsung and Tsung can be download from:
http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/

Development of idx-tsunami

Tsunami is developed in Erlang and this is where the power of Tsunami relies. Tsunami is based on the Erlang OTP (Open Transaction Platform) and inherits several characteristics from Erlang:

1. Performance: Erlang has been made to support hundred thousands of lightweight processes in a single virtual machine.
2. Scalability: Erlang development environment is naturally distributed,promoting the idea of processes location transparency.
3. Fault Tolerance: Erlang has been built to develop robust, fault-tolerant systems. As such,wrong answer sent from the server to Tsunami does not make the whole running benchmark crash.

For Tsung to work, i need to install ERLANG or Ericsson language platform in my machine. These are the steps to install the platform

 Download this application from:
http://www.erlang.org/download.html
Unzip the folder
# tar -zxvf <erlang folder.tar.gz>

Move into the unzip folder
# cd otp_src_R12B-0
# ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/erlang
# make
# make install

Now i shall continue to install the Tsung or idx-tsunami in my system

Download Tsung from:

http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/dist/

Select the latest distribution and proceed with the instructions below

Unzip the folder

 

Configure the tsung and make install

 

Next install by using:

# make

# make install