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Re: Load testing web servers?


From: "Rob Smith" <kormoc () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:40:37 -0700

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Zhihao <zhihao () root sg> wrote:
Hi everyone, is there a tool we can use to load test web servers to the
point we are simulating a ddos attack to test its resistance? I have seen a
few commercial ones out there but would like to know if there are any
opensource tools that we can use?


There's ab, http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html


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