Re: website traffic simulation

[John Miller <jmiller@thecsl.org>]

Thanks for the advice, Andy.  I'm running ab right now--seems to do what
I need.

--John


andrew holway wrote:
> look at ab or apache benchmark. I think It does what you need.
> Installed as part of the apache2 package on debian.
> 
> cheers
> 
> andy
> 
> On 11/09/2007, John Miller <jmiller@thecsl.org> wrote:
>> Part of the web programming job I'm on right now requires that I do load
>> testing to ensure that the site can handle twice its current traffic volume.
>>
>> I've installed the site to a testing server (to avoid crashing the live
>> version), and have slurped the production site's logs into an SQL
>> database.  I figured to write a database function or two to calculate
>> average requests/second, standard deviation, etc.  I'm a rank newbie
>> when it comes to simulating traffic, though.
>>
>> Can anyone offer their experiences with simulating web traffic?  Are
>> there definitive resources I should read first?  Any good simulation
>> programs out there so I don't have to roll my own?
>>
>> --John
>>
>>
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