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| author | Nullspoon <nullspoon@iohq.net> | 2014-02-23 15:07:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Nullspoon <nullspoon@iohq.net> | 2014-02-23 15:07:57 -0700 |
| commit | 50efb663ccb4b4e172b35a02ff9df22245931457 (patch) | |
| tree | f04c6557b12fe8441097a2653dc6ab6eb69e031d | |
| parent | f52231f1e52b5617abfca496e2bac3b664bc8f12 (diff) | |
| download | forkload-50efb663ccb4b4e172b35a02ff9df22245931457.tar.gz forkload-50efb663ccb4b4e172b35a02ff9df22245931457.tar.xz | |
Updated README.md with a bit more helpful helptext
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@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ forkload ======== +The forkload script provides rudimentary load testing for web applications +(anything accessible through curl). This currently tests from a single system, +so a significant bottleneck will occur due to the fact that a load test is +running off of a single nic. As such, Forkload is intended for small scale load +tests (tens to the low hundreds of clients, depending on your nic and the +infrastructure between the testing agent and the destination). -A bash script that multithreads load testing of a remote web application. |