*** Using Gatling 2.1.4 on Ubuntu 14.10
I ran into an issue last night while running a 12 hour longevity test. The good news is the gatling simulation I ran found an issue with our docker container configuration and after running for a few hours under a moderate load it was running out of memory.
The bad news is I am not able to view the reports because the system I ran the test on ran out of disk space. The system I run my tests on is beefy HP Z-620 - 16GB memory, 1TB HDD, etc. When I ran my tests I started it like this:
nohup mvn gatling:execute -Dgatling.simulationClass=com.cliqueintelligence.qa.performance.test.simulations.contexts.CreateTaskForDurationSimulation -DatOnceUsers=100 -Denvironment=wareft1 &
The problem is that nohup.out grew to almost 900GB and I ran out of disk space and the test never finished. My questions are:
- Is this the best way to run a test like this?
- Is there a way to not output anything to console so nothing gets written to nohup.out? I know I can do this through Linux commands but wasn’t sure if there was a way in Gatling to not output anything to the console
- If I don’t output anything to the console is there a way to view the progress of the test while it’s running? Normally I would just tail -f nohup.out to see how things are going
- I now have a 65G simulation.log file sitting there. Is there a way to process that log file now so I can see a report of the transactions that did go through before I ran out of space?
Thanks,
Steve