[CLUE-Tech] stress test for web servers / applications

[David Anselmi]

Dave Price wrote:
> greetings,
> 
> I am looking for an application or set of scripts that can be used to
> load / stress test a web server.
> 
> I would like to be able to package up a group of tests that can test a
> server's response time under load.

The O'Reilly "Web Performance Tuning" book is pretty good for this.  I 
didn't pay too much attention to testing packages -- I think most of the 
examples were done with simple perl scripts.  But the descriptions of 
what was done and what the results mean were good.

Dave