> What do you suggest as a good benchmark tool to use that would be > 'smart' when testing a whole complete site.
For pounding a bunch of URLs, the best are ab, httperf, and http_load. If you need something fancier that tests a complex series of actions and responses, there are several packages on CPAN. They've been discussed on this list, but I haven't tried any of them myself so I can't comment on them. They will not scale as easilly as the first three I mentioned though, so if you need to test hundreds of requests per second with them you will need multiple machines to run the clients on. - Perrin
