Load test for a web server

I have to write python script to perform load test for thttpd server. i need to test开发者_开发技巧 like "wat happens if 500 users accesing the server at a time" . i'm in need of some input to implement this..

There's a great chart of python load testing frameworks available at

https://web.archive.org/web/20141106040743/http://pycheesecake.org/wiki/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy

or a more official list at:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy#Web_Testing_Tools

Check Locust.io . We have our tests in Python and it just made sense to go with it. It rather simple but gets the job done writing only python.

I would have a look at using Multi-Mechanize as that allows you to do load testing with Python and is quite good!