Re: Measuring performance: Apache

On 30 Oct 2003 09:27:58 +0000, Chris Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ranga Guruge) writes:
>> I am doing a class project to measure and analyse
>> Apache's performance. We are to measure several
>> variables like
>> 
>> * Response Time
>> * No requests in the system
>> * How response time when bursts occur
>> * etc. etc.
>
>ApacheBench comes with Apache and will do bits of that.  It's not a
>particularly realistic way to load a server, though.


Nor is AB particularly good. I prefer httperf, which is more flexible, and (IMO)
robust to most of the sorts of things you might throw at it.

httperf is free, and available (as source) at

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html