How to stress test a website

[Tomba]

Hi all,

regarding the server configuration and my application design I would like to do some stress tests that show me the number of requests the server can handle on my website.

I have tried JMeter but I can't find how to get such a statistic.

Can anyone help how to do that with JMeter or any other program?
Thanks

[chrisranjana]

Here is a tutorial on stress testing apache web server

[greg.harvey]

JMeter outputs all sorts of useful data in the graphical statistics view which you can easily use to calculate this sort of thing.