how to find (calculate) real load (hits per second) peak values from (apache) server logs?

[Nikolay_Miroshnichenko <ni...@gmail.com>]

Hi!

I guess the question is not about JMeter exactly, apart from I'm using 
it. And I haven't managed to find an answer to this question for 2 times 
googling.

I've been testing some web site, requirements are nothing special but 
the customers want to know "real" current load peaks so that they can 
define expecting load peaks in the future and then test it.

I could write a script which parses server logs and returns number of 
requests in every second... But maybe there's an easier way to get it?
Because I have a couple of days to end with this issue.

Thanks for your thoughts...

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Best Regards
Nikolay Miroshnichenko