Thanks everyone, for your responses! I will try these tools out.
2009/6/3 Jérôme Renard <j...@ez.no> > Hello, > > Sorin Manolache a écrit : > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 19:41, Elison Smith <elison.sm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> (I realize that this question is not an exact fit for this mailing list) >>> >>> I have a website that runs Apache 2.x. I want to loadtest this site. >>> >>> I want to loadtest with as much as 50-100 requests per second. >>> >>> Any pointers to tools/ online services ? >>> >>> I am happy to pay for a tool that can do this. >>> >>> >> Try jmeter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html although I >> could not find a way to send requests at a specified rate. At work, we >> use jmeter to send as many requests per second as possible and then we >> look at jmeter's logs. >> >> The required number of threads in order to reach a throughput of T >> req/sec is T x avg_resp_time in seconds. >> >> If you want your test to last S seconds, each thread must loop >> S/avg_resp_time times. >> >> So, for a desired throughput of 100 req/sec, a response time of let's >> say 0.5 seconds and a test of 10 minutes you'll need 100 x 0.5 = 50 >> threads, each of them looping 600/0.5 = 1200 times. >> >> You can configure what you want to log. You'll be able to compute the >> histograms of response times, the error rate, the obtained throughput, >> etc. >> > > Totally agree with what Sorin said, Jmeter is a really powerful tool. > It requires to practice a little bit but once you are used to it and its > interface you can do a lot of things. > > If you do not want to use Jmeter you can also use Apache Benchmark, less > powerful than JMeter but sometimes it is just what you need : > > - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html > > You can also use a nice little tool called abgraph which makes ab a bit > easier to use especially if you want to get graphical results with GnuPlot > : > > - http://sourceforge.net/projects/abgraph > > Otherwise you can also try FunkLoad, which is a nice tool as well (a bit > different than Jmeter though) but my preference goes to Jmeter anyway. > > - http://funkload.nuxeo.org/ > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Jérôme :) >
