[olug] web server performance/stress testing

[Brian Wiese]

apt-get install siege 	      // produces some nice stats and info

http://www.joedog.org/siege/index.shtml

ABOUT SIEGE
Siege is an http regression testing and benchmarking utility. It was
designed to let web developers measure the performance of their code under
duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege
supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It
allows the user hit a web server with a configurable number of concurrent
simulated users. Those users place the webserver "under siege."

On 08 Apr 2003 10:28:53 -0500
Nick Walter <waltern at iivip.com> wrote:

|Anyone got any advice on stress testing a web server?  I've got a
|machine with RH 7.2 + Apache 1.3 + Tomcat 4.1 doing mostly servlet stuff
|against a database back-end.  The DB is on a different server.
|
|I need to figure out a way to prove I can get to my target of 400
|simultaneous users all doing stuff at once on the webserver.  I know the
|db can handle the load easily, but any advice on good apache/tomcat
|testing practices would be appreciated :)
|
|Nick Walter
|
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