Hi Damian, The script written by Ahmed, already uses ab. He is using the script to gather some other information, besides the ab output. Please take a look into webtorture.sh, and you'll see what i mean. Paulo <div>On 12/7/06, Damian Myerscough <<a href="mailto:damian.myerscough@gmail.com">damian.myerscough@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, > 1- A script was written which uses apache's ab tool to stress the server. Script will run on the web-server host. There is a tool available for benchmarking apache called: ab or ab2 which is apache benchmark to use it you simply issue: ./ab -n 1000 -c 100 <a href="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/index.htm">http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/index.htm</a> The above will simulate 100 users accessing the website 1000 times On 07/12/06, Nils Breunese < <a href="mailto:nils@breun.nl">nils@breun.nl</a>> wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 21:07 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: > >> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:02 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > >>> Before we get started I'm hoping to get > >>> cacti set up for a good baseline. > >> > >> Not to denigrate Cacti but you might want to take a look at > >> Zabbix... It > >> was recently included in FE (I did the review). It's a little bit > >> trickier to set up but the polling is done using a server & agent > >> written in C, as opposed to Cacti which is largely PHP. I've been > >> working on a Zabbix install at work and I poll a number of variables > >> every 5 sec. > > > > cacti in php doesn't matter. It's the snmp interface in cacti which > > does > > the tricks and that's all done using snmp libs. It also has the > > advantage of just being another use of snmp instead of being it's own > > whole thing. > > ZABBIX also uses the snmp-libs for the optional SNMP agents. I use > ZABBIX to monitor all of my servers and it suits me pretty nicely. > The ZABBIX web frontend is in PHP, just like Cacti's. See http:// > <a href="http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install_requirements_software.php"> www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install_requirements_software.php</a> for more > info on the software requirements for ZABBIX. > > Nils Breunese. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com">Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list</a> > > > > _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com"> Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list</a> </blockquote></div>