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This policy concerns customers who are planning on running high volume network tests directly from their Amazon EC2 instances to other locations such as other Amazon EC2 instances, AWS properties/services, or external endpoints. These tests are sometimes called stress tests, load tests, or gameday tests. For the sake of this policy we consider a 'network stress test' to be when a test sends a large volume of legitimate or test traffic to a specific intended target application. The endpoint and infrastructure are expected to be able to handle this traffic. This policy is not concerned with normal production traffic. Network stress tests are different from normal production because network stress tests often target specific endpoints, have different traffic patterns including the concentration of sources and targets, maintain higher sustained volume than normal traffic, and can accidentally exceed expected limits. During network stress tests, these differences present potential risks for unintended impact to external endpoints, other customers, or AWS services.

Tests that purposefully attempt to overwhelm the target and/or infrastructure with packet or connection flooding attacks, reflection and complexity attacks, or other large volumes of traffic are not considered network stress tests but are considered distributed denial of service (DDoS) tests. Volumetric network-based DDoS simulations are explicitly prohibited from the Amazon EC2 platform and are not covered by this policy. Customers wishing to perform a DDoS simulation test should review our DDoS Simulation Testing policy.

Most customer testing will not fall under this policy. Normally, tasks like customer unit tests simulating large workloads for stress testing do not generate traffic that qualifies as network stress tests. This policy only applies when a customer's network stress test generates traffic from their Amazon EC2 instances which meets one or more of the following criteria: sustains, in aggregate, for more than 1 minute, over 1 Gbps (1 billion bits per second) or 1 Gpps (1 billion packets per second); generates traffic that appears to be abusive or malicious; or generates traffic that has the potential for impact to entities other than the anticipated target of the testing (such as routing or shared service infrastructure). Customers will need to ensure the target endpoint has authorized the testing and understands the expected volumes. Some external endpoints or AWS services may have lower than expected thresholds for certain testing scenarios. We understand that many of our large customers generate more than 1 Gbps or 1 Gpps of traffic in normal production mode regularly, which is completely normal and not under the purview of this policy, unless specifically done for the purpose of network stress testing.

Network stress tests that meet this policy's criteria have risks: the customer may be detected and/or reported as being abusive; the customer might be unintentionally abusive and/or impactful to other entities; and the customer might have mitigations applied to their instances, which can impact their tests as well as their production workloads. If a customer is unsure if their tests meet these criteria, they should follow this policy, and have AWS evaluate the tests. To improve the experience for the customer and other entities that might be impacted by such a test, before these stress tests are performed, the customer must fill out an Amazon EC2 Network Stress Test intake form, which can be obtained by sending an email to aws-security-simulated-event@amazon.com. If a customer’s network stress tests are performed via means other than directly from their EC2 instances, i.e. via external or other AWS services, they should send an email to determine if they need to submit a form. AWS will generally respond to e-mail inquiries within 48 hours, please feel free to follow up if you have not received a response within that time frame.

These tests are sometimes called stress tests, load tests, or gameday tests. For the sake of this policy we consider a 'network stress test' to be when a test sends a large volume of legitimate or test traffic to a specific intended target application.

Stress testing refers to tests that determine the robustness of software by testing beyond the limits of normal operation”. Due to budget constraints, my clients usually ask for some free tools to load/stress test their application, before going live. Here are some free tools to Load/Stress Test web applications. There are several ways in which this can be done. A simple way to stress test your server side Extension is to build a client application that acts as a player, essentially a “bot”, which can be replicated several hundreds or thousands of times to simulate a large amount of clients. » Building the client.

Upon receiving the form, AWS will evaluate the test parameters and respond with what steps are needed to help prevent accidental impact. If AWS determines there is not likely to be impact , there will be no steps, but AWS will be ready to respond if needed. For tests that might have impact , steps may include running the network generating tests from a separate AWS account, adjusting the tests to minimize risk, or working with AWS Support closely to understand the scenarios and processes. Even with approval from AWS, the customer is still responsible for any damages to AWS, other AWS customers, or external entities that are caused by testing activities.

SQLQueryStress is a simple, lightweight performance testing tool, designed to load test individual queries. It includes support for randomization of input parameters in order to test cache repeatability, and includes basic capabilities for reporting on consumed server resources. Solution Yes, the SQLQueryStress tool provided by Adam Machanic can be used to apply additional stress when testing your stored procedures. This tool can also be used to apply a dataset as random parameter values when testing your stored procedures.

If you’re having problems with your computer and it isn’t behaving correctly in certain situations, then it could be a cause for concern. One of these situations could be when you are performing resource intensive tasks and the system becomes unstable or crashes while being put under stress. This could be a problem such as the CPU overheating and shutting itself down, or even the graphics card running into similar trouble. Or maybe the power supply simply cannot cope anymore with all hardware components running at full intensity…

Whether you’re someone who wants to test their PC components because they suspect a possible fault, or have bought / built your own PC and want to make sure it runs stably and reliably at maximum load, you need a program to be able to put the system under the desired levels of stress for periods of time to monitor the situation. Here are 10 tools (9 of them free) to do just that and put your system under huge amounts of stress to check for faults or problems.

1. HeavyLoad

HeavyLoad is a utility that aims to stress the main component areas of a PC, namely processor, memory, hard drive and graphics. It can also run these tests individually or altogether which is obviously the time maximum stress will be placed of the system hardware and also the power supply. The Disk space and Free memory tests are not really there to put undue stress on those components, but rather continually writes a large file to the drive and allocates / deallocates memory to the system simulating heavy load when all major components are utilized.

There is an option though to add more stress to the hard drive by using Jam software’s other popular included tool Treesize Free to simulate more heavy disc access. HeavyLoad is available as portable and installer versions and is a very useful overall system stability tester to keep in the USB toolkit. Works on Windows XP to Windows 8 32-bit and 64-bit.

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2. FurMark

Furmark is a stability and stress testing tool designed especially for graphics cards and runs a very intensive “Fur” rendering algorithm which is very good at pushing the GPU to its absolute limits. There are a few settings that can be changed such as resolution, full screen mode and anti aliasing, and a few presets are available such as running in the HD resolutions of 720 / 1080, or running a burn-in test for 15 minutes. The benchmark’s default run time and an alarm for the maximum allowable temperature for the graphics card is found via the Settings window.

Benchmark scores can be compared or viewed online. FurMark is compatible with Windows XP and above.

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3. StressMyPC

This is a simple, tiny and portable utility of around 20KB that can run a stability test on your single, multi core or multi threaded processor. In addition it can also perform a couple of other tests such as a simple GPU graphics test and also one for the hard drive. The “Paint-Stress” GPU test is enabled by default and the “HD-test” and a more aggressive CPU test which will push your processor towards 100% (the standard test used about 60% of a dual core CPU during testing) can be enabled by the buttons at the top of the window. StressMyPC works on all versions of Windows 2000 and above, including 64-bit.

Download StressMyPC

4. System Stability Tester

System Stability Tester works by simply using the well known and famous method of telling the computer to calculate the value of Pi up to 128 million digits. This will completely consume your processor for as long as the test runs and can also be used as a basic benchmarking tool to see how long it takes your CPU to calculate the specified number of digits. The range can be between 128 thousand up to 128 million and can be run continuously up to 50 times using up to 32 threads. There are 2 methods to choose from, Borwein and Gauss-Legendre which is also used by the classic SuperPi tool.

Works on Windows XP and above, portable and installer versions are available.

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5. IntelBurnTest

Despite the name, IntelBurnTest actually works fine for testing on AMD processors as well, and is called as such because it makes use of the Intel Linpack libraries which Intel themselves use to stress test CPU’s. Usage is easy and all you have to do is set the number of times to run the test, the number of threads to use and the test stress level. This can be Standard, High, Very High or Maximum and if your available RAM is less than what the test requires, choose Custom and set the amount of memory to use accordingly.

The program is portable and runs on Windows XP and above.

Download IntelBurnTest

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A nice collection of stress tests, but I am currently searching for DOS-based software. Will keep looking, but perhaps you could add something in this vein the next time you update the article?

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BurninTest software is good for testing, but unfortunately it’s not free

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any commandline tools, i need them in my automation

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3d mark is good for higher end graphics cards

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Aida64 is also good program. It is almost head-to-head with BurnIn Test made by PassMark

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I generally run Orthos and MemTest. For the hard disk, when I get a new one, I copy tons of files big and small to it and then try using these files. Last drive showed problems immediately after this.

I also always do a Nero Recode and x264 encodes since these are heavy CPU programs.

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Useful tool and have noted contributors very helpful warnings.

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Looks like a decent benchmarking software. Thanks Ray!

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My suggestion regarding this type of program:
Run it well BEFORE your warranty expires. Make sure you didn’t get a system with faulty components. Don’t experiment on an older system (with gigs of files & programs at risk). If something is “marginal”, these programs WILL find them – often destructively!

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Second this – it is actually possible for stress testing software to fry your PC. E.g. normal use of a video card will not come close to the temperature and power consumption of running a 100% stress test like FurMark, and this could cause an otherwise working component to fail. It does mean the component is running out of spec, so it could even be recommended to run this just before your warranty expires, but not after.

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An example of how testing software can be destructive if it does not change or write anything new or over existing files, code or registry? If a tool writes its own fix without showing you changes before they happen then don’t use it.

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Thanks again for a useful tool Raymond

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Thank you Raymond.

Nice tool.

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A very good and large hardware store here uses Everest for stability testing

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Thanks for the info Raymond!

Best Stress Test Tool

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