Re: Crashing a webserver

> I have got the task to down our webserver, to see how stable she is, and how > easy/hard it is to get it on it's knees ;) > > Does anyone have some ideas how to do it? There are various useful "torture" scripts floating around the web that you can use to create heavy, somewhat radom loads on a server, as well as to send large chunks of random data, etc... a few quick links that might help: http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/torture.html http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/talks/perl_conference/cute_tricks/torture1.htm l http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html#LOAD c -- Chris Lott http://www.chrislott.org/