Hi<br><br>You can use httperf or Apache ab:<br><br><a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/">http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/</a><br><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html</a> (usually installed with the Apache Package)<br>
<br>Using a cloud environment where servers could be increased depending on load could be good, but I am not sure what tool to suggest to do the automatic scaling.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 August 2011 10:17, James Cumming <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.cumming@yahoo.co.uk">james.cumming@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi All</span></div>
<div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Newspapers this morning report that the e-petitions site crashed on launch, due to high volume (1,000 visitors a minute registering proposals) . Just wondering if it would be worth while investigating this further as to why this happened and how to avoid something like this happening in future RoR projects. <br>
</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>What's the best to test a site for high volume?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Cheers</span></div><div> </div><font color="#888888"><div><i>James Cumming, CFA</i><br>
</div><br></font></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
Chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Riccardo Tacconi<br>Ruby on Rails and PHP development - System Administration<br>VIRTUELOGIC LIMITED<br><br><a href="http://github.com/rtacconi" target="_blank">http://github.com/rtacconi</a><br>
<a href="http://riccardotacconi.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://riccardotacconi.blogspot.com</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/rtacconi" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/rtacconi</a><br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/riccardotacconi" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/riccardotacconi</a><br>