From: Patrick May <patrick@...>
Date: 2004-09-05T12:24:49+09:00
Subject: Re: stress testing rublog


On Saturday, September 4, 2004, at 10:50  PM, Aredridel wrote:

>> Can anyone recommend a decent, lightweight webserver load testing 
>> tool,
>> something that'll send requests in parallel and measure response times
>> and throughput?
>
> I hear good things about "ab". Not sure where to get it at the moment, 
> though.

ab is "apache bench":

     http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/ab.html

It's part of the apache httpd installation.  On mac os x it's at 
/usr/sbin/ab

Cheers,

Patrick