From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-12-23T07:52:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby replacement for ab?

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> I realize I sound like a salesman for a couple of rather expensive tools -- 
> if that offends the denizens of this open source list, well, I'm sorry. As I 
> said before, if somebody wants to go out and build an open source tool in 
> Ruby that does industrial strength load and scalability testing, I'll be very 
> encouraging, at least with "moral support". But it's a big job -- it's not as 
> simple as it looks. It's certainly more than I'd be willing to take on as a 
> one-man open source hacker.

I think there is a LARGE amount of room in between ab and an open source, 
feature complete competitor for SilkPerformer for something that fills a 
niche and is useful, yet manageable as an open source project.


Kirk Haines