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From: Ilya M. <il...@ma...> - 2003-03-01 11:11:39
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>>>>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:16:10 -0300, "Ed Fancher" <ed....@la...> said: Ed> Well, Ed> Loadrunner costs thousands and thousands of dollar for each computer you Ed> want to simulate. The advantage is that it also has some nice reporting and Ed> statistical analysis tools. Ed> WebTest is free, you can use some other Perl modules to do any stat Ed> analysis, but you will have a week or so work to do. I've done something Ed> similar with Perl for a UNIX app. that worked really well and then I used Ed> the GD graphing module and my own statistical routines (just mean, max, ..) Ed> Doing concurrent things with Perl is sometimes difficult because fork() Ed> isn't normally built in, so you will need to get around that with shell Ed> scripts or compile Perl with multithreading, ... I'm considering rewriting testing loop of HTTP-WebTest using POE somewhere in the future. It will allow concurent testing using single process without using threads. -- Ilya Martynov, il...@ip... CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - http://www.iponweb.net Personal website - http://martynov.org |
