web stress tool

[stevelibby]

Can anyone recomend a web stress tool to make sure that i know that maximum visitors at any given time.

[siteperf]

apache benchmark (named 'ab') tool can load some page specified number of times in several threads - it's good tool to load server at 100% and see how many pages can be generated per second.

run on same server where domain is hosted:
ab -k -c 40 -n 10000 [domainname.com...]

where 40 is concurrency (40 simultaneous threads)
and 10000 is number of all request to send

[cgrantski]

Steve, You might get more answers if you asked this in one of the other forums having to do with website technical issues or webmastering.