[ILUG] Slightly OT: Suggestions for performance testing PHP website

[Paul Mullen]

On Tue 02 Dec 2008, Phil Bradley wrote:
> Hi all,
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> So, my questions are:
> 1. Does this seem like a reasonable testing methodology
Not answering this.
> 2. Is there a tool the can implement this type of methodology?
>
ApacheBench? Its part of the apache distribution, I believe.
Also I believe you can use SLAMD for this. http://www.slamd.com
> I've tried out OpenSTA, JMeter and WebLOAD but they don't quite seem to
> do this. When you eliminate alpha projects that haven't been updated
> since 2001 from sourceforge, there are too many left. I can probably
> script something in perl but if there's something pre-rolled, I'd like
> to avoid the overhead of having to code it myself.
>
> Thanks,
>   -Phil

Paul.