Hello:

Anyone remember that script or program that performed simulated loads on a Linux web server? I ran a search, but nothing worthwhile came up.

I'd like to test that out on a few servers we have here. Thanks!

Yeah it's called apache benchmark. Check out the /usr/local/apache/bin/ab is the program location.

-Steven

Just to avoid confusion: The program is called Apache Bench, not Apache Benchmark, and /usr/local/apache/bin/ab *is* the program - it's not a directory. Keep in mind that ab might be installed in another directory on your system.

Here's an example of sending 200 HTTP queries to localhost:

ab -n 200 http://localhost/

You can make some of those 200 request happen at the same time (to emulate a server with a high number of users requesting pages at the same time):

ab -n 200 -c 20 http://localhost/

This will make ab query the server with 20 requests simultaneously until it has performed 200 requests.

There is also dbench and SMTP Torture on the Samba site