Traffic Generators

= Siege = Siege is an open source stress / regression test and benchmark utility. siege -c100 -t30S -d10 -b -v aman.info.tm

Some Extensions --header="Cookie: SESSb43b2d1d084de3872c89b0b125b64564=Jafuk06rppYAXIxWaU0LY2VmqxN997DsKU3BSgfArCM" -f /path/to/some-urls.txt

The some-urls.txt file is just a simple list of URLs on newlines: http://www.mywebsite.com/about-us http://www.mywebsite.com/contact-us

= Httperf =

Installation: sudo apt install httperf

Usage: httperf --server waf.avitest.com --port 80 --num-conns 100 --rate 10 --timeout 1

= Curl = curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://waf.avitest.com seq 100 | parallel -j0 curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://waf.avitest.com

for i in `seq 1 99999`; do echo "Status Code:"; curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://10.1.1.1; sleep 1; done

= Apache Benchmark = ab -t 1 -n 1000 -c 300 http://waf.avitest.com/

Increase Apache MaxClients (now called MaxRequestWorkers in new versions) on Backend Server: sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/mpm_event.conf MaxRequestWorkers        1000 ServerLimit        565

= Locust =

= Slowhttptest =

Source: ubuntu.com


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