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Re: use curl as a web stress testing tool

From: Troy Engel <tengel_at_sonic.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:08:37 -0800

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:02:06PM -0500, Richard Chen wrote:
>
> Also, can one control the keep-alive
> and test its impact on the performance when
> the server turns it on and off.

While it could, I personally think this would be use of the incorrect tool for the job; there are already Perl scripts out there which accomplish the same thing natively, eg:

http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/
http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe/1998/08/Pounder/pounder.html

-te

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