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C# - Stress testing a Web Service - Timeout

Hi,

I have a web service that is query'ing a database. The query takes a few seconds to run.

I'm stress testing my web service using a couple of threads.

If the interval is too short between the threads that execute the web service, I get the following exception.

System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request. ---> Error fetching *MyWebserviceMethods*.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)

Any ideas why this is happening? I thought web services can handle some load.

Thank you.

ventaur

How are you calling the web service method?

Endelm

ASKER

I'm using a while loop and 3 threads.

I execute the 3 threads at the same time.....then sleep for 1 sec.....then run the 3 threads again, etc.

If I set the threads to sleep for 5 or 10 seconds I don't get this error.

The execution of each web service call takes a few seconds.

Thank you.

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Endelm

ASKER

Interesting.

What does this do and how is it different from what I was doing?

Thank you! :)

ventaur

If you call your web service method's xxxAsync version, it will automatically occur on its own thread; thus, preventing blocking. However, if you wish to perform any action(s) upon the completion of the method call, you have to subscribe to its xxxCompleted event.

adam_ingeniti

So in other words, "asynchronous" means that each call to the web service will occur on its own thread, and thus should not interfere with each other.

ventaur

You pretty much have it with that statement.