[NTLUG:Discuss] LAMP Server Benchmarks?

[Stuart Johnston]

NTLUG wrote:
> LAMP as in Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP...
> 
> Also if anyone knows of any good bechmark apps/suites that might help
> with this I would be interested in hearing about those as well.

Here are some URLs I collected when I was looking for such a thing 
recently.  Unfortunately, these will only help you if you already have 
your server and your site built.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html
http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/
http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html#LOAD
http://openload.sourceforge.net/
http://joedog.org/siege/
http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/torture.html

The one I ended up using is Siege and it worked pretty well.  Apache 
also comes with a tool called 'ab' but it does not support SSL, or at 
least not the version I had.

HTH,
Stuart Johnston