> Hi all, > I am a relative newbie and I need to write a small web server load tester. > > I know there are many tools out there, but I would like to write a simple > script that can login to a webserver, connect to port (whatever port > number i give it) and do a 'wget https://blah.blah.com :9091". > > While the first part is quite easy, ie writing a perl script to do a wget > from the server, creating this as a daemon, running many processes > simultaneously ie. I would like to run 200 to 300 processes, as each > process would act like a session, stressing the webserver. > > The hard part is having the original perl script fork out processes. I've > been reading up on fork and signals. does anybody have some suggestions on > how i can do this? > > Thx, > Radhika >
I knew something similar had already been written, checking Google turned up a very good candidate. http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/ Of course if I were to reinvent this wheel, I would probably do it using POE, http://poe.perl.org HTH, http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
