Testing: Want to "spawn" multiple

[mikecrowe]

Hi folks,

I have an interesting question. I want to load test a web application (non HTTP). I've written some php curl-based test scripts.

How can I spawn many copies of this script to hit my server 50 or 100 times simultaneously? Any framework which might help this?

TIA
Mike

[bukwirm]

Here's (http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html#LOAD) a list of webserver testing programs - I don't know if any of them will work for you, though.

[lloyd_b]

Hi folks,

I have an interesting question. I want to load test a web application (non HTTP). I've written some php curl-based test scripts.

How can I spawn many copies of this script to hit my server 50 or 100 times simultaneously? Any framework which might help this?

TIA
Mike

A simple shell script:
#!/bin/bash

for NUM in {1..100}; do
myscript &
done
will launch 100 copies of that script, each running in background. Note that they will *not* be truly simultaneous (there's going to be a very small delay between them), but depending on what your test scripts do it may be close enough.

Lloyd B.

[mikecrowe]

Lloyd,

DOH, I should have thought of that. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks.

Mike

[slavik]

does php have fork()?

[mikecrowe]

No, it's really not thread aware (though curl is). That's why I needed to run separate processes.