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Rational® Performance Test Server
Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Tester Guide - Performance Testing
Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
View test results
This topic describes how to work with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server charts in the Results Gallery perspective.
Data sets
After a performance test has completed, its results can be viewed in the Results Gallery perspective.
Memory usage
When using its charting features, IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server has to load the data sets from the database into memory.

Rational® Performance Test Server
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server.
- Administrator Guide
  Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
- Tester Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
  - Tester Guide - Performance Testing
    Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
    - Creating and running performance tests
      This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
    - View test results
      This topic describes how to work with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server charts in the Results Gallery perspective.
      - Data sets
        After a performance test has completed, its results can be viewed in the Results Gallery perspective.
        Viewing results of a single test
        This topic explains how to view results of a single test.
        Viewing results of multiple tests
        Additional data sets can be added to a chart, including those from other performance tests.
        Chart windows
        Counter data is plotted on the upper right portion of the chart window.
        Memory usage
        When using its charting features, IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server has to load the data sets from the database into memory.
      - Charts and chart templates
        The following topic describe how to work with charts and chart templates.
      - Chart counters
        The Counters tab on the chart windows displays the available counters, grouped by source.
      - Chart styles
        The Styles tab on the chart window enables you to modify the general appearance of the chart, including general styles and styles that are specific to each axis (when more than one axis is displayed).
    - Deploying probes
      A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
  - Tester Guide - Integration Testing
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for product documentation.

Memory usage

When using its charting features, IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server has to load the data sets from the database into memory.

Depending on the duration of the test, the statistics interval and the probes configured, there may be a lot of data.

The current memory usage is indicated in the lower right corner of the chart display.

The amount of memory available to Rational® Performance Test Server is fixed, meaning that no more can be allocated if the limit is reached. If necessary, you can quit the application and use the Library Manager application to allocate a larger amount of memory to Rational® Performance Test Server (for information about using Library Manager, refer to Working with Library Manager).