Testing concurrent tasks / forking

[Oliver Gorwits]

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Robbie Bow wrote:
> I want to test a web application under the stress of 
> 4-12 concurrent connections. I've used Test::WWW::Mechanize to retrieve 
> and submit the form I'm interested in but, looking at CPAN I just can't 
> spot anything that appears to let me run several of these routines 
> concurrently.

There is the Apache Benchmark program itself, which I have heard (i.e.
no personal experience) can give some impression of app'n performance:

   http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

(also for other Apache versions, no doubt)

HTH,

oliver.
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Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group,
Oxford University Computing Services
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