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Is it possible to simulate a large amount of traffic to a server, to test how it holds up against all the requests?

The server is not currently live, it will not interfere with continuing service.

2012-04-04 07:51
by Billy Moon

Yes. You may be looking for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webloadtesting (there is a list of various testing SW at the bottom; some of it does load testing - Piskvor 2012-04-04 07:55

what type of service? if it's http you probably already have a tool installed on the machine, it's apache httpd's ab (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html). if you need something more complex check apache's jmeter: http://jmeter.apache.org - user237419 2012-04-04 07:59

I've always used ab in the past, though I'm sure there are other tools out there.

2012-04-04 07:59
by Waynn Lue