From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-09-05T12:05:35+09:00
Subject: Re: stress testing rublog

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:47:30 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> After our recent Slashdotting, I'm looking at our server performance :)
>   One thing I'm looking to do it run run a fastcgi version of rublog.
> Before I do that, though, I'd like to run some comparative numbers.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a decent, lightweight webserver load testing tool,
> something that'll send requests in parallel and measure response times
> and throughput?
> 

JMeter from the Jakarta project isn't bad once you get it set up, but
it's a little unintuitive at first.  Since you have a Mac, I know you
have a JVM that will run it, so it's not too much of a pain to
install.

Chad