Stress Application Test – How Much Traffic Can Your Website Handle?
Did your website or web app just get written up on blog or major new outlet? Great! Do you know if your site will hold up to the amount of traffic that is about to come your way? If you hesitated to answer that or feel unsure, check out this tool from Google. It will test your how your website reacts to varying degrees of internet traffic:
Stressful
Application Test (or stressapptest, its unix name) tries to maximize
randomized traffic to memory from processor and I/O, with the intent of
creating a realistic high load situation in order to test the existing
hardware devices in a computer. It has been used at Google for some
time and now it is available under the apache 2.0 license.
Some useful links:
To download the source code, go to the downloads page.