Website stress test in Python - Django

Question

I'm trying to build a small stress test script to test how quickly a set of requests gets done.

Need to measure speed for 100 requests.

Problem is that I wouldn't know how to implement it, as it would require parallel url requests to be called. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Also, there is an awesome open-source pure-python distributed and scaleable locust framework that uses greenlets. It's great at simulating enormous amount of simultaneous users.

Answer 2

Why build it?

There are several available.

1. For a single url and many requests try ab
2. For multiple urls and random tests try siege

Answer 3

If you want to stay within the Python framework you might try Corey Goldberg's Pylot or its successor multi-mechanize.

Answer 4

Although this question is quite old, I'd like to point out a nifty tool about this problem. The tool is funkload.