NAME

http-stress - simple http parallel client for http server stress measurements.

SYNOPSIS

http-stress [:verify=true] [:port=80] [:forks=5] [:cycles=5] [:sleep=0] [host] [url1] [url2] [...]

DESCRIPTION

http-stress is a simple http command-client which fetches randomly selected urls from the host specified. The program creates parallel client forks where each client cycles through the specified number of times.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

:verify=XXXXX: The XXXXX is true or false. If true then the urls are first fetched one by one in order with the http result headers displayed to the standard output.
:port=XXXX: The XXXXX can be any legal port number, default 80.
:cycles=XXXXX: The XXXXXX number of hits for each client fork, default 5.
:forks=XXXXX: The XXXXX number of client forks running in parallel, default 5.
:sleep=X: The number of seconds X to sleep after sending the http request and before reading the response. Defaults to 0.
host: The host defaults to localhost.
url: The url defaults to /. Multiple urls may be specified.

FILES

http-stress http-stress.scm

IDENTIFICATION