Emulating traffic from a real logged access file
 

Our main site runs currently up to 1000 simultaneous users online (15 minutes session period). But its graphical content is high and it is heavily modified by products and plugins.

I have a cloned testing site for testing modifications before installing at live domain, but without real traffic I can not get any perception on server performance before the new code goes "live".

I would be interested in developing such a tool for simulating as good as posible (user browser caching of real users is hard to emulate) the response of the server for a real log of page requests. I mean, at least get the read-only simulation of the forum behaviour with the new code.

Has anyone gone inside this before? Any posible reference?

Best regards

I don't think I have ever seen anything like that, I would have to believe it would be impossible to mimic real traffic, to many variables to take into account.

I could be wrong though.

You might want to check out loadimpact.com.

You beat me to it! I have used this tool often. Great suggestion! :up:

It does load testing but not sure how it would be possible to mimic users.