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. Server Benchmark s.b allows server engineers and administrators to quickly complete the 'burn in' phase of your server and VDI provisioning process. The software also allows users to benchmark processing and memory utilization by dynamically adding threads and building arrays to test memory capacity.

The freeware stress test tool HeavyLoad was developed to bring your PC to its limits. It can be installed on any edition of Windows and client/server versions (32-bit and 64-bit) currently supported by Microsoft.
HeavyLoad puts your workstation or server PC under a heavy load and lets you test whether they will still run reliably.

Be mobile: Install HeavyLoad as a portable version e.g. on a USB stick and use it wherever needed!

The main window offers a clean and modern user interface which allows to quickly start the application and to see the stress HeavyLoad puts on your PC.

In the „Options“ dialog you can configure the tool according to your requirements or set advanced settings such as time limit or used CPU cores.

The Windows Task Manager can be opened from within HeavyLoad via the Extras menu to quickly assess your system's performance.

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Heavyload is a System Utilities Benchmarking software developed by JAM Software GmbH. To stress your PC or server, HeavyLoad writes a large test-file to the temp folder, it allocates physical and virtual memory, performs complex calculations and it draws patterns in its window.

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