Re: Load Stress tool

>I am looking for suggestions on a tool to "load stress" a php >application. We want to make sure that the application/web server will be >able to handle the amount of users we expect. I have found a few but they >seem to be very expensive. Can anyone suggestion an "affordable" and user >friendly stress test app? Apache ships free with 'ab', a benchmarking tool: <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/ab.html> It doesn't do a whole lot, but it will happily hammer away at a given URL and tell you how your server did. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html