Web/Apache Benchmark Tools

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Any ideas if there is software that will benchmark a website (apache/mysql) to find out how much it can take before it crashes? If best remote connections.

 

[Deleted member 65081]

Getting your site posted on Slashdot should do the trick

Both Apache and MySQL have benchmarking tools available for them with their respective distributions (ab, sql-bench, crash-me, etc). Using ab for apache is pretty handy, but MySQL benching or load testing can be done fairly easily on your own. Use any old scripting language to run any number of different types of queries and time them.

 

[cleric_retribution]

if you want to test your site (and server's) ability to concurrently handle "X" amount of requests, I suggest you check out a piece of software called "siege".

you can run it with many different options, and it will let you test to see how responsive your server (and various subsystems, IE php, sql, etc) are.

I use it regularly to see how scalable some of my php/sql code will be, as well as for testing load balancing scenarios for large http sites.

 

[Christopher]

if you want to test your site (and server's) ability to concurrently handle "X" amount of requests, I suggest you check out a piece of software called "siege".

you can run it with many different options, and it will let you test to see how responsive your server (and various subsystems, IE php, sql, etc) are.

I use it regularly to see how scalable some of my php/sql code will be, as well as for testing load balancing scenarios for large http sites.

Another vote for siege here, I use it about every 6 months or so to do a comprehensive load test of my companies site.

 

[Frobozz]

I just wanted to toss in Apache Bench (ab) as well.
It generally comes with apache.

 

[detzx]

Damn, siege is nice! Just tried it on my server, actually better than I expected!