Is there a tool (preferably a web service) that can stress test our site? We're having problems with our site going down once we have about 100 concurrent users. Forums seem to suggest I need to tweak my httpd.conf
. I plan to try to tweak httpd.conf, but need to know if the tweaks actually did anything. So stress testing it after each configuration change might be my plan of attack. Suggestions?
How to Stress Test a Web Server
apache-2.2stressstress-testing
Best Answer
If you're using Apache you can use a utility called
ab
(Apache Bench).From the fine manual:
It's that last bit that you'll be interested in.