Apache ActiveMQ -- Benchmark Tests

There are a couple of simple benchmarking tools in the org.activemq.benchmark package in the unit test area.

Right now they are quite simple!

If you want a more comprehensive performance testing mechanism try the JMeter Performance Tests

All of the following commands need to be run in the assembly directory. e.g. something like this...

cd activemq/assembly

Then in one shell run a server

maven server

In another shell run a benchmark consumer

maven bench:consumer

and then in another shell run a benchmark producer

maven bench:producer

You can customize the execution of these tools via additional command line properties etc.

You can specify additional parameters as follows

maven bench:producer -Dparam=value -Dparam2=value2

The parameters allow the tests to be configured to test different kinds of scenario...

Parameter	Description
url	the transport protocol used to connect
topic	true/false to indicate whether to test queue or topic semantics
durable	true/false of whether to test durable or non-durable(reliable) communication
messageSize	the number of characters in the text message to use in the test
subject	the name of the destination (queue/topic) to use