At 21:04 -0600 2001.11.19, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: >When I worked at BBN we tried a whole catalog of stress testing software >both commercial, free and home grown and while some of them will give you >occasionally decent metrics, nothing, and I do mean nothing, can simulate >users hitting your site like real users. In other words, test your code >but never underestimate the power of the user to find the few things you >didn't think of [ or the testing suite ] and bring your site to its knees.
I work on Slashdot, and, well, this is very true. ab is a very useful tool for us, as are homegrown scripts to simulate site spammers, but not even a million monkeys is any real substitute for the actual million monkeys that will be hitting your site. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
