SQL2K under stress load

  • Not sure anyone has same problem. We found when we run the stress test (using MS stress test tool - ostress). When connections above 300, it throws 'SQL server not available'  randomly. This is co-incide with the problem we are facing in our prod. environment from the Web server. But, now we know problem is not on the Web server but SQL related. The stress tool are running from the physical SQL server server DOS command console

    Below is the stress test script

    ostress.exe -SSQLSrv -Uusername -Ppassword -dDBName -Q"select top 10 * from tablename (nolock)" -n300 -r50 > local.txt

    Anyone has any idea ?

  • Have you watched your performance counters?

    Perhaps the server is too busy with I/O or something else.

  • 110% sure is not the case (I/O), we're able to re-produce the problem on various system, H/W ranging from SCSI 3 to fiber to EMC. It sounds more like a setup issue somewhere.

  • Have you tried increasing/decreasing max worker threads?

     

  • Sure did, bumped from default 25 to 500, same issue.

  • Sure did, bumped from default 25 to 500, same issue.

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