Traffic Generators: Difference between revisions

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*To generate significant load it is almost always necessary to run it in distributed mode.
*Master server do not simulate any user itself.
*For this we have to start one or more slaves using –slave flag
*Both the master and each slave machine, must have a copy of the locust test scripts when running Locust distributed.
*Run below command on each slave nodes as well
ulimit -n 9999
 
*After installing Locust and moving your locustfile.py to all nodes, Start “master” node:
locust --host=http://somedomain.io --master
 
Then start any “slave” nodes, giving them a reference to the master node:
ulimit -n 9999
locust --host=http://somedomain.io --slave --master-host=192.168.10.100