Ab

ab - Benchmarks your Apache server by sending requests to it. For apache2, the program is named ab2.

Example: ab2 http://www.linuxquestions.org/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0 Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking www.linuxquestions.org (be patient).....done

Server Software:       nginx/0.6.31 Server Hostname:       www.linuxquestions.org Server Port:           80

Document Path:         / Document Length:       37569 bytes

Concurrency Level:     1 Time taken for tests:  1.12974 seconds Complete requests:     1 Failed requests:       0 Write errors:          0 Total transferred:     38097 bytes HTML transferred:      37569 bytes Requests per second:   0.99 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request:      1012.974 [ms] (mean) Time per request:      1012.974 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate:         36.53 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median   max Connect:     173  173   0.0    173     173 Processing:  839  839   0.0    839     839 Waiting:     250  250   0.0    250     250 Total:      1012 1012   0.0   1012    1012
 * How-to: http://peter.nyc.ny.us/docs/howto.ab.html
 * Man Page: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/ab.html