ApacheBench (ab) is a single-threaded command line computer program for measuring the performance of HTTP web servers
ApacheBench (ab) is a single-threaded command line computer program for measuring the performance of HTTP web servers.
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ab is not sending requests as fast as I want
I want to load test my web app and find out the max requests that it can handle per second, while ab doesn't behave quite the same as I have expected:
when sending requests with a single ab, it can send 2k requests/second, so I expect that starting…
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Apache benchmark failed request on Connect?
Im trying to stress test my server. I started using JMeter but this did did not work like i wished. Im trying the same with apache benchmark but run on a failed request i just dont know what it means.
I tried stressing it with:
ab -n 10000 -c 2000…
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Apache Benchmark horror results with a simple Gevent app
I have a simple Python code to run Gevent.
Tested with Apache Benchmark with 10000 users and 5 concurrent but it's damn slow..nearly 2 seconds per request (1.419 ms) which is bad..
My code is
from gevent import wsgi, monkey
class…
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How to load test website with SWF Flash file?
I have a website that has a SWF embbeded on it with SWFObject. This SWF file has 1,5 MB. I would like to test if website (Lightppd) will be alive if 600 users per hour will try to open it. It will be approx. 900 MB / hour of transfer.
So I have 2…
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Plotting same results in JMeter as ApacheBench
We are benchmarking our server and therefor we are using multiple benchmark tools. We already used ApacheBench giving us some great results and were also easy to plot in a graph.
Example plot AB results
Now we are using JMeter but having a hard time…
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Apachebench making more requests than I ask for
I am trying to use apachebench to make a number of requests to test my server. However it often times makes a ton more requests than I ask for. I am using this to test a node.js server which uses express.
ab -n 1 http://myserver/
It seems finicky…
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Am I using ApacheBench correctly?
In Video controller - Show action, I've tried with two scenarios. The first one uses increment_counter, and writes to the db directly:
Video.increment_counter(:views_count, @video.id)
The second approach uses the save method.
@video.views_count =…
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Why ApacheBench test on tornado aborts when I add `-k`?
I start a tornado http server like this:
app = tornado.web.Application([
(r'.*', MyRequestHandler),
])
http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(app, no_keep_alive=True)
http_server.listen(port)
ioloop =…
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Apache Benchmarks really bad, any advice?
Using Apache Bench, the home page of my site can only handle 0.42 requests per second. A simple phpinfo() page can handle 31.99 requests per second, which seems really slow for such a simple script. Obviously my home page handling 0.42 requests is…
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Differences between JMeter and Apache Benchmark
I've been using JMeter for a long time and during my research, I came across Apache Benchmark, which seemed a bit more simple load testing tool to me.
So my assumption is that; Apache Benchmark is more suitable choice for benchmarking one API at a…
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