In a previous life we started with ApacheBench, and then wrote our own async perl benchmarker because we wanted to generate steady hits-per-second instead of Ap

In a previous life we started with ApacheBench, and then wrote our own async perl benchmarker because we wanted to generate steady hits-per-second instead of ApacheBench's N concurrent requests at a time. By now there's probably a tool out there that does what our custom tool did.