Or if you are just benching a page like http://www.yourdomain.com/test.html you could switch it to test.php and have it do the sleep for you. Seems a little simple and I am not sure it's what you are going for exactly. On 10/22/07, Tom Hart <tomhart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know about anything in apache to do this, but there are a couple > other options that popped into mind, depending on what exactly you're > trying to test. > > The first is netlimiter (http://www.netlimiter.com) that will let you > simulate network congestion/low bandwidth scenarios, with a little work. > > The second possibility is only if you're running windows (sure there's a > way to do this in *nix, but I'm no guru). Get something running on an > open loop (kill cpu cycles) and set the priority of the httpd to low, to > simulate processor bogdown. > > A combination of these two might get you close to where you want to be, > but if they don't I'm pretty sure there are more 3rd party applications > (on windows at least) that should help you simulate the conditions > you're trying to. > > Jim Albert wrote: > > For the purposes of testing a heavy load situation, I'd like to > > configure one of my apache web servers to intentionally respond slow > > to a request. > > > > Is anyone aware of some type of apache sleep or delay configuration > > that will easily allow me to configure this? For example, tell apache > > to wait 10 seconds before responding to any request. > > > > Thanks, > > Jim Albert > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > > Project. > > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx