Perrin Harkins wrote: >>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.
Like Perrin says, also see some examples in the guide. http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html If you really need to write many benchmarks try my never released Apache::Benchmark and if you find it useful, it should be easy to port it to use HTTPD::Bench::ApacheBench as it currently calls 'ab' and parses the output. Get the package from here: http://stason.org/works/modules/Apache-Benchmark-0.01.tar.gz _____________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ticketmaster.com http://apacheweek.com http://singlesheaven.com http://perl.apache.org http://perlmonth.com/
