UNMAINTAINED: Try https://github.com/pjoe/loadem instead
This project aims to provide a tool for load testing web applications. The goal is a tool that is easy to use and provides near real-time performance measurements of the application under test which is very usefull during optimization.
hammer is a Http load testing tool for Unix/Linux platforms. hammer reads scripts of XML that describe the load tests. hammer is implemented in C++ using Xerces-C and Commoncpp2.