I've been a fan of siege, but recently I had to test an app under very high load and I had big trouble getting siege to do that. The default ubuntu install has

I've been a fan of siege, but recently I had to test an app under very high load and I had big trouble getting siege to do that. The default ubuntu install has some hard limits on file pointers and compiling it from source seemed to segfault all the time. I ended up switching over to httperf.