Question

I have a server from which I can access a webpage. I want to test the server reaction when several users(say 60000 users) access the same webpage simultanously.
Im looking for a script to do this,a perl script will be better,

Here is the code I tried with

#!c:\\perl\\bin
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $url = "http://www.cpan.org";
my $searchstring = "WWW::Mechanize";
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
while (i == 60000)
{
$mech->get($url);
i++;
}

But this scripts access the url 1 at a time, But I need simultanous access.

Answer 1

You can either use Perl itself to launch your script 6000 times in parallel or write one (or maybe more than one) .BAT files or similar Windows scripting to launch the perl script.

Be careful to clearly understand how to execute stuff in detached mode under Windows.

(Of course you have to remove the while loop in your original script).