[Catalyst] stress testing catalyst apps

[Will Hawes]

On 22 March 2010 21:26, Fernan Aguero <fernan.aguero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have an app working under apache/mod_perl (and behind a reverse
> proxy) that we would like to optimize. We're currently evaluating
> performance, checking memory usage, etc.
>
> For this we thought about using some stress testing package that would
> be flexible in allowing us to specify a number of specific actions (in
> the form of URIs) corresponding to a standard user session. Any
> software you'd recommend for this task? Something from CPAN? Ideally
> we'd like something that would also provide us with some report on
> what happened ...

By no means exhaustive, but both of these will allow you to do that:

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/