crowd website simulation on localhost for a php/mysql project

Question

I searched for a while on how to find a benchmarking software that can simulate crowd website with more than 1000 users online to find out leaks in my php/mysql script .

as long as i ran my script for a huge community and it wasn't successful enough and lots of RAM usage happened , now I need a way to simulate that much usage to benchmark my script and optimize it .

I am using XAMMP Local Server and my project written in PHP&MYSQL.

thanks in advance

Answer 1

You may take a look at Apache bench which allows you to simulate user load of a given web site.