From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 17:15:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trixie.teamspirit.com (trixie.teamspirit.com [204.94.66.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F99A37BF0E for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:15:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from preeper@cts.com) Received: from gt361 (dt2-blk1-hfc-0251-d1db0c8c.rdc1.sdca.coxatwork.com [209.219.12.140]) by trixie.teamspirit.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA90312 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:15:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000225170727.00b54430@crash.cts.com> X-Sender: preeper@crash.cts.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:07:27 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jerry Preeper Subject: load testing a web server and network connectivity Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was wondering if anyone has run across a good tool to load test a web server and connectivity. I'd like to see how my web server stands up to a load of like 5x, 10x, 20x and 50x of what I get now. The two issues I probably need to test would be connectivity to the server and then server performance under load. I'm not sure how to go about simulating the connections that would probably also need to do things like run some of the perl programs, mysql accesses and such to have it be a fair test... Also, it would be nice if it could interpolate results to give an idea of where it would it would die or be dead for real purposes and show what the bottlenecks might be (ram, nic, etc..). Any ideas? Jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message