> -----Original Message----- > From: Ram Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:00 AM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: Load Test a web site > > On Oct 9, 12:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Coyle) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am an beginner using Perl. > > I need to load test a new web site - does anyone have some > very basic > > code that I could re-use? > > Ideally I'm looking for something that simulates multiple > users hitting > > the web site at the same time. > > > > Yours gratefully ... > > > > - Jim > > This is not exactly a perl job. > You could better use a tool like wget. wget -b can push processes into > the background and simulate near-realtime access > If you are using perl LWP , just be warned that you could easily get > your client server out of control, unless you have tonnes of RAM for > free
IIRC, there are a couple of server test packages on Sourceforge designed just for this purpose. Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
