We have a production server running Apache that sometimes crashes because of too much load, I'm trying to replicate the situation on a test server in order to test Monit. So my goal here is to overload Apache to make the service crash, or at least the render a website unavailable.
I was trying to do that with apache AB :
ab -n 100000 -c 1000 http://webtest/
but it doesn't seem to be enough, despite /server-status/ showing all workers active... Is there a more powerfull alternative or a more efficient way to use ab to bring Apache to his knees?
Thanks!