On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:16 AM, mayak-cq <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, > > i'm curious if some can suggest a freeware web/php testing tool to run > against a > server and see how it does (server located behind pfsense). > > i'd like to watch how both of them do under heavy load. >
There are numerous options, Apache's "ab" is one, and this article lists a few. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server_benchmarking But you have to make sure to do a sane testing methodology any time you're testing through any stateful firewall, as the very high rates of connections they can use will reuse source ports more quickly than the states are closed which will lead to connection failures and isn't a true replica of what traffic will actually be seen in the real world. Spread the load across numerous source systems or source IPs assigned to the same system, and make the ephemeral port range on the source OS the full 1024-65535. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
