Thanks for the information. I also found the MS Web Application Stress Tool
which may work

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutio
ns/intranet/downloads/webstres.asp

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Migurski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:32 AM
To: Luis Lebron
Cc: Php-General (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [PHP] Load Stress tool


>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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