Gyepi SAM [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:24:31PM -0500, joel Gwynn wrote: *>> What do you folks use for load-testing your perl cgi apps? *> *>ab comes with apache -- be sure to get the latest version, it has been *>considerably improved *> *>http_load is by Jef Poskanzer. You can find it at http://www.acme.com/software/ *> *>They both work well, but slightly differently.
When I worked at BBN we tried a whole catalog of stress testing software both commercial, free and home grown and while some of them will give you occasionally decent metrics, nothing, and I do mean nothing, can simulate users hitting your site like real users. In other words, test your code but never underestimate the power of the user to find the few things you didn't think of [ or the testing suite ] and bring your site to its knees. e.
