This section is from the "Practical mod_perl" book, by Stas Bekman and Eric Cholet. Also available from Amazon: Practical mod_perl
The following are also interesting benchmarking applications implemented in Perl:
Many other benchmark utilities are available both for free and for money. If you find that none of these suits your needs, it's quite easy to roll your own utility. The easiest way to do this is to write a Perl script that uses the LWP::Parallel::UserAgent and Time::HiRes modules. The former module allows you to open many parallel connections and the latter allows you to take time samples with microsecond resolution.
 
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