http_load

An HTTP benchmarking tool. Runs multiple HTTP fetches in parallel to test the throughput of a web server. More information: http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/.

http_load -rate 20 -seconds 60 path/to/urls.txt

http_load -parallel 5 -seconds 60 path/to/urls.txt

http_load -rate 20 -fetches 1000 path/to/urls.txt

http_load -parallel 5 -fetches 1000 path/to/urls.txt