Hi there,
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Christopher L. Everett wrote:
> I've written some mod_perl scripts that need testing over a million
> hits or so before I deploy it.
ab (distributed with Apache, 'man ab' for help) can give you a million
hits with one command.
I don't know if you're going to get a real-life test other than by
going live. Scripts tend to test what you think will go wrong.
Invariably something else goes wrong in real life. Putting a million
records in a logfile will test your disc capacity and little else.
> I need to prove to myself and my marketing guy that my script has
> certain statistical properties, not the least of which is the
> question of whether my activity logs match what actually happened.
You've been spending too much time with your marketing guy. "Certain
statistical properties" is gobbledygook. What properties? Activity
logs don't match statistically. Either they match or they don't. If
they don't then either the logging is turned off or it isn't working.
> Also, there's concurrency issues to make sure I've got right.
Get yourself a bunch of users. Probably the easiest way to really
bang on your script would be to advertise a new sex site (sorry:).
Anyway I'd really hate you to do all that work only to find that you
hadn't tested the test script well enough...
73,
Ged.
