Best way to develop a server stress tool

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From: Mark Anders
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:26

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hi,

to check out how many simultaneous visitors our new server may manage, i
like to develop a server stress tool. my idea was to simulate the visitors
via threads. so each visitor is a thread.

the threads should looks like this pseudo code:

void __fastcall TMyThread::Execute()
{
   while(!Terminated)
   {
      open the website
      sleep(10000)
   }
}

so each visitor oben the website every 10 seconds. i would use nmhttp to
open the website.

problem is, that i like to run our site from 1 - 5000 simultaneous visitors.
at this reason, the use of threads wouldn't be a good solution, because i
think i cannot run 5000 threads on my system without any problems.

how would you create a server stress tool. is there any better way then
threads? please give me some ideas

thanks Mark

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