Brutis
Brutis
Brutis is a tool designed to exercise memcache instances by providing reproducible performance data for comparison purposes. Brutis can be useful for sizing memcache clusters as well as testing changes to the system, the hardware, and/or the environment. Much like a dynamometer, the numbers Brutis produces are not as important as the differences in the numbers between changes to the system, the hardware, and/or the environment.
When sizing memcached clusters, Brutis can help by stressing a memcached cluster to see:
- How many ops the cluster is capable of
- How much load the network config can take
- How many connections a memcache cluster is capable of handling (we’ve tested up to 40K connections)
With respect to instance (not cluster) sizing, Brutis can be used to simulate varying object and key sizes to see how many keys/objects can fit in a memcache instance before evictions start.
Brutis can be downloaded from Google Code and Github:
