Guest sameold Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Hi Guys, Anyone no off any good tools for performance testing. In particular I am interested in stress testing a new print server. Any advice appreciated. Thanks, Sameold
Guest Mathieu CHATEAU Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Re: Stress testing Windows Server 2003 Hello, You may use hdtune to stress HDD (for the spool): http://www.hdtune.com/ If drivers will be used in Citrix/TSE, you can use a free tool from Citrix: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-citrix-tool-stress-printer-driver.html Testing Printing and Imaging Devices with the Driver Test Manager http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/print/DTMGuide.mspx Printing - Architecture and Driver Support http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/print/default.mspx -- Cordialement, Mathieu CHATEAU English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com French blog: http://www.lotp.fr "sameold" <me@me.com> wrote in message news:hqs4v4-fmq.ln1@news.vuw.ac.nz... > Hi Guys, > > Anyone no off any good tools for performance testing. > > In particular I am interested in stress testing a new print server. > > Any advice appreciated. > > Thanks, > Sameold >
Guest sameold Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Re: Stress testing Windows Server 2003 Hi Mathieu. Thanks for these! These are some good resources... I will look through them. MS have an inhouse tool called printstress whichseems to be not available to public, yet the advocate it in their guides? Do you know anything about this? Cheers, Andrew "Mathieu CHATEAU" <gollum123@free.fr> wrote in message news:ODeB74oFIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > You may use hdtune to stress HDD (for the spool): > http://www.hdtune.com/ > > If drivers will be used in Citrix/TSE, you can use a free tool from > Citrix: > http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-citrix-tool-stress-printer-driver.html > > Testing Printing and Imaging Devices with the Driver Test Manager > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/print/DTMGuide.mspx > > Printing - Architecture and Driver Support > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/print/default.mspx > > -- > Cordialement, > Mathieu CHATEAU > English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com > French blog: http://www.lotp.fr > > > "sameold" <me@me.com> wrote in message > news:hqs4v4-fmq.ln1@news.vuw.ac.nz... >> Hi Guys, >> >> Anyone no off any good tools for performance testing. >> >> In particular I am interested in stress testing a new print server. >> >> Any advice appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Sameold >> >
Guest Mathieu CHATEAU Posted October 25, 2007 Posted October 25, 2007 Re: Stress testing Windows Server 2003 It's inside this msi: http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/2/d/b2d09585-7c3b-452b-bee3-288aa60ad613/WSSRA_Deployment_Toolkit.msi C:\WSSRA\Deployment Kit\Testing\Test Tools\PrintStress\PrintStress.zip -- Cordialement, Mathieu CHATEAU English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com French blog: http://www.lotp.fr "sameold" <me@me.com> wrote in message news:sn15v4-m24.ln1@news.vuw.ac.nz... > Hi Mathieu. > > Thanks for these! > > These are some good resources... I will look through them. > > MS have an inhouse tool called printstress whichseems to be not available > to public, yet the advocate it in their guides? > > Do you know anything about this? > > Cheers, > Andrew > > > > > "Mathieu CHATEAU" <gollum123@free.fr> wrote in message > news:ODeB74oFIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Hello, >> >> You may use hdtune to stress HDD (for the spool): >> http://www.hdtune.com/ >> >> If drivers will be used in Citrix/TSE, you can use a free tool from >> Citrix: >> http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-citrix-tool-stress-printer-driver.html >> >> Testing Printing and Imaging Devices with the Driver Test Manager >> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/print/DTMGuide.mspx >> >> Printing - Architecture and Driver Support >> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/print/default.mspx >> >> -- >> Cordialement, >> Mathieu CHATEAU >> English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com >> French blog: http://www.lotp.fr >> >> >> "sameold" <me@me.com> wrote in message >> news:hqs4v4-fmq.ln1@news.vuw.ac.nz... >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> Anyone no off any good tools for performance testing. >>> >>> In particular I am interested in stress testing a new print server. >>> >>> Any advice appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sameold >>> >> > >
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