title: Tool for distributed HTTP benchmarking?
body: <p>I would like to benchmark a website that our company is developing. It will consist of multiple web- and backend-servers. </p>
  
  <p>To be able to properly simulate a large amount of request, I was thinking about using our dev machines (approx 15 Xp/Vista) and a few spare Red Hat servers as benchmarking clients.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any tool that would let me set up these machines as slaves/clients, and then control them into performing a combined benchmark and get aggregated results?</p>
  
  <p>The benchmark would consist of simulating a normal user logging in and surfing a few pages.</p>