Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...

2008-01-22 Thread Richard Lynch
apache benchmark, aka "ab" comes with apache and lets you hit your server as many times as you want. Also see wget and valgrind/callgrind For Windows users, there's something called SuperSmack or some equally silly name... :-) On Mon, January 21, 2008 3:50 am, Jochem Maas wrote: > hi guys, > > I

Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...

2008-01-21 Thread Eric Butera
On Jan 21, 2008 5:50 AM, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Rademaker schreef: > > Jochem Maas wrote: > >> Ron Rademaker schreef: > >>> Hi Jochem, > >>> > >>> Apache comes with an nice ab tool which stands for apache > >>> benchmarking. You can use this to benchmark stuff like concurrent

Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...

2008-01-21 Thread Jochem Maas
Ron Rademaker schreef: Jochem Maas wrote: Ron Rademaker schreef: Hi Jochem, Apache comes with an nice ab tool which stands for apache benchmarking. You can use this to benchmark stuff like concurrent requests. indeed, I know ab, but it doesn't allow for a very realistic request 'spread'

Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...

2008-01-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Jochem Maas wrote: Ron Rademaker schreef: Hi Jochem, Apache comes with an nice ab tool which stands for apache benchmarking. You can use this to benchmark stuff like concurrent requests. indeed, I know ab, but it doesn't allow for a very realistic request 'spread' - at least as far as I k

Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...

2008-01-21 Thread Jochem Maas
Ron Rademaker schreef: Hi Jochem, Apache comes with an nice ab tool which stands for apache benchmarking. You can use this to benchmark stuff like concurrent requests. indeed, I know ab, but it doesn't allow for a very realistic request 'spread' - at least as far as I know. I was hoping for

Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...

2008-01-21 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:50 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start > going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing > high load performance of a website? > I went through a similar headache recently, and looked at a whole whack of t