I'm involved in a project which uses PHP and SQL in a web-board system, and it's been suggested we ought to stress-test it by simulating numerous/frequent hits, as part of the beta process.

How would that normally be done in Perl? What tools are available to do it? What are we testing for -- slowing down of the server? Slowing down of HTTP response times?
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($_=
'jjjjjjuuuuuuuuusssssssssttttttttt annnnnnoootttttthhhhheeeeeerrrrrr
 pppeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrllllllllllllll haaaaccccccckkkkkkkeeeeeeeerrrrrr
 ' ) =~y/[a-z]//s;print;

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2002-02-10 Edit by Corion: Changed PRE tags in signature to CODE tags, reformatted sig.

In reply to How Do You Stress-Test a Server? by Cody Pendant

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