in reply to Stress testing a webserver

It is not Perl, but I had some succes in using the tools mentioned in this Microsift Knowledgebase article

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James