[CLUE-Tech] Favorite HTTP stress testing tool(s)?

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Michael Robbert wrote:

> I've always heard that Seti at Home works great for testing CPU and memory at least. It has
> Linux command line and Windows versions. I think that there may be a MS command line
> version as well.
>
> * Sean LeBlanc (seanleblanc at attbi.com) wrote:
> > Does anyone have any favorite stress testing tools - preferably UNIX/Linux
> > open source command line...and if it builds under Cygwin, so much the
> > better...no UNIX currently on-site. :( That is going to be changing at some
> > point, but not anytime soon.

The subject line says HTTP stress-testing, so I'll suggest httperf.
I wrote a few columns on it for UnixReview.com last year, you can find the
first here:
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1235/urm0105q/

I don't know if it will build under Cygwin, but it's worth a shot.

Take care,

Zonker
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