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[Joel De Gan]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 11:36, Chris Bielanski wrote:
> Hey kids, I want to collect everyone's (cogent) thoughts on what scripts
> they find most effective for testing out new Apache installations. I'm
> looking at load-balancing, max throughput, max concurrent sessions, and
> things of that nature. I'd like to be able to stress-test and shakedown any
> new LAMP or WAMP servers we build. I've only just begun this research and
> I'm not an Apache geek by any stretch, so any input is graciously welcomed.

ab - apache bench, it comes with apache as far as I know.
you can run it off a test server so it not connecting to localhost.
it is kind of the defacto..

Here is what the output sort of looks like:

Concurrency Level:      1 
Time taken for tests:   0.755 seconds 
Complete requests:      100 
Failed requests:        0 
Broken pipe errors:     0 
Total transferred:      2379200 bytes 
HTML transferred:       2342200 bytes 
Requests per second:    132.45 [#/sec] (mean) 
Time per request:       7.55 [ms] (mean) 
Time per request:       7.55 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          3151.26 [Kbytes/sec] received 

Connnection Times (ms) 
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max 
Connect:        0     0    0.0      0     0 
Processing:     6     7    5.6      6    62 
Waiting:        0     2    6.5      0    62 
Total:          6     7    5.6      6    62 

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 
  50%      6 
  66%      6 
  75%      6 
  80%      6 
  90%      7 
  95%      7 
  98%     11 
  99%     14 
100%     62 (last request)

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