Hi David. have you looked at Flood ??? I would suggest you take a look at that first, as it is 100 times better than ab.
http://httpd.apache.org/test/flood/ I know justin & aaron did a presentation about this.. they may be kind enough to mail you a copy/link Regards Ian David N. Welton wrote: > [ 3rd time's the charm for this posting? ] > > [ Please CC replies to me. ] > > I have been hacking at the Apache Benchmark source code, and I am > starting to think that it needs an overhaul, and some extending. > > One of the big things that I would like to see would be to library-ize > it, in order to break out pieces, and expose the functionality to > other programs (gui's, for instance, or people who want to put the > pieces together in different ways than the current program...). I > have an initial version of this done, but I'm not really happy with it > yet. > > Fix up the documentation: the man page doesn't correspond to what it > actually does. > > Name change? Searching for anything on ab is just about impossible, > and 'apache benchmark' isn't much better. ' ab - Apache HTTP server > benchmarking tool' at least gets you the man pages, but nothing in the > bug database. A new name might be helpful for these things. > > Fix up the output formats: there is a disparate variety of output > formats. There ought to be a good way to make this a bit more > regular. Maybe an internal XML data format that can then be > translated into other things (along with, say, the regular old text > output for quick'n'dirty uses). > > Other issues? > > Yes, this is a lot of stuff, and I don't know if I will have the time > anytime soon, but I thought I'd ask and see what the response is:-) > Maybe I can get what I do have to a good point - I think it's a step > in the right direction. >
