Yes, I created different workers and with same or different queries. 

sorry it has been a while since I used it, and the link to its source code
(no jars) should be here:
http://code.google.com/p/httpstone/source/checkout



sunnyfr wrote:
> 
> just a question about your httpstone's configuration ....? 
> I would  like to know how did you simulate several word search ... ?? 
> Did you create a lot of different workers with lof of different word
> search ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> zqzuk wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> try to firstly have a look at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCaching the
>> section on firstsearcher and warming. Search engines rely on caching, so
>> first searches will be slow. I think to be fair testing it is necessary
>> to warm up the search engine by sending most frequently used and/or most
>> costly queries, then start your stress testing.
>> 
>> I used this tool http://code.google.com/p/httpstone/ to do stress
>> testing. It allows you to create multiple threads sending queries to a
>> server simultaneously, and records time taken to process each query in
>> each thread.
>> 
>> Hope it helps.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> sunnyfr wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying as well to stress test solr. I would love some advice to
>>> manage it properly.
>>> I'm using solr 1.3 and tomcat55.
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> zqzuk wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi, I am doing a stress testing of my solr application to see how many
>>>> concurrent requests it can handle and how long it takes. But I m not
>>>> sure if I have done it in proper way... responses seem to be very slow
>>>> 
>>>> My configuration:
>>>> 1 Solr instance, using the default settings distributed in the example
>>>> code, while I made two changes:
>>>> <useColdSearcher>true</useColdSearcher>
>>>> <maxWarmingSearchers>10</maxWarmingSearchers>
>>>> As I thought the more searchers the more concurrent requests can be
>>>> dealt with?
>>>> 
>>>> There are 1.1 million documents indexed, and the platform is winxp sp2,
>>>> duo core 1.8 GB machine with ram 2GB
>>>> 
>>>> I used httpstone, a simple server load testing tool to create 100
>>>> workers (so 100 threads) each issuing one same query to the server. To
>>>> deal with a single request of this query it took solr 2 seconds (with
>>>> facet counts), and 7 documents are returned. I was assuming that only
>>>> first request would take longer time and following requests should be
>>>> almost instantaneous as the query is the same. But strange that the
>>>> first response took as long as 20 seconds.
>>>> 
>>>> It looked like that the 100 workers sent same request to solr and then
>>>> all of a sudden solr server went silent. Only after 20 seconds some of
>>>> these workers started to receive responses, but still very slow.
>>>> 
>>>> clearly there I must have made something wrong with configuring solr
>>>> server... Could you give me some pointers on how to improve the
>>>> performance please?
>>>> 
>>>> Many thanks!
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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