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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html