On 23 Sep 2002, Dave Cross wrote:

> A way to throw requests at various parts of the web site in order
> to test the a) correctness and b) speed of the responses.

For pure speed testing we use normally use http_load[1], as it allows us 
to simulate many people with a 28.8Kb modem, which is totally different to 
using "as fast as possible" testing routines.  

Of course, there is a section in The Guide about this[2].

Mark.

[1] http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/
[2] http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Benchmarking_Applications

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