>I am looking for suggestions on a tool to "load stress" a php
>application. We want to make sure that the application/web server will be
>able to handle the amount of users we expect. I have found a few but they
>seem to be very expensive. Can anyone suggestion an "affordable" and user
>friendly stress test app?
Apache ships free with 'ab', a benchmarking tool:
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/ab.html>
It doesn't do a whole lot, but it will happily hammer away at a given URL
and tell you how your server did.
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