Flood - a profile-driven HTTP load tester¶

Flood is a profile-driven HTTP load tester. It can be used to gather important performance metrics for your website.

Please see the FAQ for common questions about flood.

Getting and using flood¶

Please read the Building flood document for a quick installation guide for flood.

Example profiles¶

Flood's configuration is XML-based. Some of the links below showcase some of the features available in flood. All of these files are available in the examples directory in flood's Subversion repository.

Round-robin annotated flood config example ( Recommended for flood newbies )
An example using dynamic content-specific variables
An example using keepalives
An example using SSL
An example using timers
A sh/gawk script that shows how to interpret the relative_times output of flood

Subversion Access¶

You may browse the flood's Subversion repository online or via flood ViewCVS

Anonymous Subversion access (via WebDAV) is available. % svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/flood/trunk flood

Mailing Lists¶

Our mailing lists are open to the public.

Subscription

dev@httpd.apache.org - discussion of what to do
cvs@httpd.apache.org - commit notifications

License¶

Like all Apache Software Foundation projects, flood is licensed under The Apache License.

Essentials¶

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