Re: Web Server Benchmarking

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@wcug.wwu.edu>]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Robert "Bulletproof" Bogdon wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a package for benchmarking a web server?  I'm most
> concerned with initial connection latency, and throughput.  The apache

Have a look at
http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-16-001-06-NW-LF-PL

httperf -- webserver Benchmarking tool                                        
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html                   

http_load -- another webserver Benchmarking tool                              
http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/

> benchmarking utility would be great, unfortunately I'm trying to test several
> hundred concurrent sessions downloading half gig files and as interesting as
> the prospect is, I don't believe the transfer speed is really -27,000 kb/s.

You need to report this. Research at apache to see if this is fixed in a
newer version. Research at Debian bugs to see if this has been reported.
I believe this is an easy fix.

What version of ApacheBench (ab -V)?
(And if from a package, what version of apache-common deb?)

  Jeremy C. Reed
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