Hi,
is there any tool available free on web for stress testing of a website.....

A website? Try ab (apachebench) which comes with the apache webserver. For a server itself try http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/stress.html

However, I dont know if that'll answer your questions. You don't mention the platform you're on, if you're on a dedicated server, etc.. Explain your situation some more, perhaps someone can 'fine tune' reccomendations for you :)

Microsoft have one for IIS as well.
http://www.iisfaq.com/default.aspx?View=P100&P=1

and i thought you were talking about those little rubber squishy balls :)

is there also some software that i can stress test my own dedi server from my home adsl connection? its fast enough, i think (8mbitup/2mbit down)

Originally posted by thedavid
A website? Try ab (apachebench) which comes with the apache webserver. For a server itself try http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/stress.html

However, I dont know if that'll answer your questions. You don't mention the platform you're on, if you're on a dedicated server, etc.. Explain your situation some more, perhaps someone can 'fine tune' reccomendations for you :)


Thanks for the link.. never knew about that... however i see no way to stop the stress tests after it begun lol....... how long does the test run for?

sander815,
try 'ab' as thedavid suggested. Your connection speed will be enough to stress test your server.

Originally posted by damainman
Thanks for the link.. never knew about that... however i see no way to stop the stress tests after it begun lol....... how long does the test run for?

anyone?

You start it via console, and ctrl-c when you're done. Least that's how I do it.

httperf---A Tool for Measuring
Web Server Performance

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html

Hi,

There are a lot of stress testing tools available for testing a website.

You can refer this documentation for more details.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6691

More stress testing tools can be downloaded from the following URL:
http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php

Hope the above links helps you.

Regards,

Bright:)

is it ok to stress test a server with many connected web visitors ?
or its best be done with no web visitors
thanks

I would probably do it during lower traffic times. Just incase, you don't want visitors to be affected. What if you hose the server ?

MS Web Application Stress Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/intranet/downloads/webstres.mspx