[Catalyst] stress testing catalyst apps

[Fernan Aguero]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Will Hawes <wdhawes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/

Thanks Will! Jmeter looks like it fits the bill perfectly (haven't got
to test httperf, though).


-- 
fernan