Posted by Andy Hassall on 09/29/05 01:15

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:37:12 +1200, "windandwaves" <winandwaves@coldmail.com>
wrote:

>d. is there a way to measure server load and calculate expected load with X
>number of visitors?

Apache comes with a simple benchmarking tool named "ab" which you can use to
throw lots of (concurrent) requests at a single URL and get some timing
information back. It's not a very realistic test, but gives you an initial
indication of how the site may perform.
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