<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><h2 id="LoadTestingwithCamel-LoadTestingwithCamel">Load Testing with Camel</h2>

<p>It is preferable at the time of writing to check out the source of ActiveMQ and Camel and perform local builds first.</p>

<p>Then run a broker either via the <strong>bin/activemq</strong> script or you could be untar/unzip the <strong>assembly/target/apache-activemq</strong>.tar.gz* file first then run its <strong>bin/activemq</strong> script.</p>

<p>Now to run a load test type</p>

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activemq/activemq-camel-loadtest&gt; mvn test -Dtest=LocalBrokerParallelProducerLoadTest
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<p>If you want to tinker with the configuration of ActiveMQ and Camel then edit the LocalBrokerParallelProducerLoadTest-context.xml file.</p></div>