[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng load testing

Hi all I am planning to do some capacity and load testing our syslog-ng servers over TCP. Towards that end, I will be writing a script to send packets to a syslog-ng host. Has anyone done anything similar? I was just thinking of writing a simple script that will open multiple sockets to the server and send a message (based upon our current calculated average message size). Any other suggestions are appreciated. Thanks,