Stress-Testing

In internet system stress testing, we frequently encounter two tools with vastly different styles: one is extremely lightweight, pursuing extreme throughput—wrk; the other is feature-rich and simulates real business flows—JMeter.

Prompt: Outline the core ideas and write a科普 article (explanatory article): HTTP stress testing tools, wrk vs JMeter – what are the differences? What I know, wrk tends to use one thread with multiple connections for testing, while JMeter primarily employs a short connection mode, which can be adjusted via configuration to enable long polling.

The author has a strong interest in hardware and used JMeter to conduct load testing, documenting the process of deploying JMeter, InfluxDB, and Grafana on CentOS 7. They shared installation and command usage for JMeter, InfluxDB’s features and Docker installation method, as well as a simple deployment and configuration for Grafana. They summarized experience and references related to high-performance programming patterns.

Background

As widely known, I have a very strong interest in hardware. By chance, the test team was using JMeter to perform load tests and discovered that performance wasn’t improving. As a curious individual, I decisively took action to see how the company conducted its testing. There’s also a small story: at some point in the distant past, I read a post on OpenChina about how to create more impressive-looking performance test graphs – after observing Windows versions execute tests and achieving visualized TPS data display, what’s the use of configuring a web panel?