jersey-load-test

This repo contains simple server and client code to reproduce the lingering connections issue with gcloud HTTP load balancer.

Instance Prep

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/java-8-debian.list

add these two lines

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main

update repo and install packages

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EEA14886
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git oracle-java8-installer

Load test setup

Provision 3 instances:

• machine type: n1-standard-16, boot image: /debian-cloud/debian-8-jessie-v20160511
• 1 for server, fronted with HTTP load balancer
• 2 for load generator

Start server

./gradlew clean jettyRun

Start client, with 64 workers using 64 connections pool

./gradlew clean loadtest -Pargs="64 64"