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    Apache Bench

    What is apache ab? ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression of how your current Apache installation performs. This especially shows you how many requests per second your Apache installation is capable of serving.

    ApacheBench (ab) is a single-threaded command line computer program for measuring the performance of HTTP web servers. Originally designed to test the Apache HTTP Server, it is generic enough to test any web server. You can benchmark Apache, IIS and other web server with apache benchmarking tool called ab. What is important is the average time it will take when you have a maximum number of users on your site simultaneously. Another important thing is how much more time it will take when there are 2 times more users: a server that take 2 times more for 2 times more users is better than another that take 4 times more for the same amount of users." is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression of how your current Apache installation performs. This especially shows you how many requests per second your Apache installation is capable of serving.
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    If you have access to a Mac or Linux server, chances are you may already have a really simple http load generating tool installed called Apache Bench, or ab. If you are on windows and have Apache installed, you may also have ab.exe in your apache/bin folder.

    Apache Benchmark Procedures


    You need to use same hardware configuration and kernel (OS) for all tests You need to use same network configuration. For example, use 100Mbps port for all tests First record server load using top or uptime command Take at least 3-5 readings and use the best result After each test reboot the server and carry out test on next configuration (web server) Again record server load using top or uptime command Carry on test using static html/php files and dynamic pages It also important to carry out test using the Non-KeepAlive and KeepAlive (the Keep-Alive extension to provide long-lived HTTP sessions, which allow multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP connection) features Also don't forget to carry out test using fast-cgi and/or perl tests

    Webserver Benchmark Examples:


    Let us see how to benchmark a Apache 2.2 and lighttpd 1.4.xx web server. Static Non-KeepAlive test for Apache web server i) Note down server load using uptime command
    $ uptime

    ii) Create a static (small) html page as follows (snkpage.html) (assuming that server IP is 202.54.200.1) in /var/www/html (or use your own webroot):
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Webserver test</title> </head> <body> This is a webserver test page. </body> </html>

    Login to Linux/bsd desktop computer and type following command:


    $ ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://202.54.200.1/snkpage.html

    Where, -n 1000: ab will send 1000 number of requests to server 202.54.200.1 in order to perform for the benchmarking session -c 5 : 5 is concurrency number i.e. ab will send 5 number of multiple requests to perform at a time to server 202.54.200.1 For example if you want to send 10 request, type following command:
    $ ab -n 10 -c 2 http://www.somewhere.com/

    Output:
    This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.41-dev <$Revision: 1.141 $> apache-2.0 Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking www.cyberciti.biz (be patient).....done Server Software: Server Hostname: www.somewhere.com Server Port: 80 Document Path: / Document Length: 16289 bytes Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 16.885975 seconds Complete requests: 10 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 166570 bytes HTML transferred: 162890 bytes Requests per second: 0.59 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 1688.597 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 1688.597 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 9.59 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 353 375 16.1 386 391 Processing: 1240 1312 52.1 1339 1369 Waiting: 449 472 16.2 476 499 Total: 1593 1687 67.7 1730 1756 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 1730 66% 1733 75% 1741 80% 1753 90% 1756 95% 1756 98% 1756 99% 1756 100% 1756 (longest request)

    Repeat above command 3-5 times and save the best reading.

    Static Non-KeepAlive test for lighttpd web server First, reboot the server:
    # reboot

    Stop Apache web server. Now configure lighttpd and copy /var/www/html/snkpage.html to lighttpd webroot and run the command (from other linux/bsd system):
    $ ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://202.54.200.1/snkpage.html

    c) Plot graph using Spreadsheet or gnuplot.

    How do I carry out Web server Static KeepAlive test?


    Use -k option that enables the HTTP KeepAlive feature using ab test tool. For example:
    $ ab -k -n 1000 -c 5 http://202.54.200.1/snkpage.html

    Use the above procedure to create php, fast-cgi and dynmic pages to benchmarking the web server. Please note that 1000 request is a small number you need to send bigger (i.e. the hits you want to test) requests, for example following command will send 50000 requests :
    $ ab -k -n 50000 -c 2 http://202.54.200.1/snkpage.html

    How do I save result as a Comma separated value?


    Use -e option that allows to write a comma separated value (CSV) file which contains for each percentage (from 1% to 100%) the time (in milliseconds) it took to serve that percentage of the requests:
    $ ab -k -n 50000 -c 2 -e apache2r1.cvs http://202.54.200.1/snkpage.html

    How do I import result into excel or gnuplot programs so that I can create graphs?
    Use above command or -g option as follows:
    $ ab -k -n 50000 -c 2 -g apache2r3.txt http://202.54.200.1/snkpage.html

    Sample test.php file


    $ ab -n 3000 -c 5 http://202.54.200.1/cgi-bin/test.pl

    Sample psql.php (php+mysql) file


    $ ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://202.54.200.1/psql.php

    Suppose we want to see how fast Yahoo can handle 100 requests, with a maximum of 10 requests running concurrently:
    ab -n 100 -c 10 http://www.yahoo.com/

    As you can see this is very useful information, it returned requests at a rate of 52.94 requests per second, the fastest request was 175ms, the slowest 224ms

    The Apache httpd web server comes with a benchmarking tool to simulate a high load and to gather data for analysis.
    ab -n 1000 -c 10 -g test_data_1.txt http://www.your-domain.com/index.html

    Option -n -c -g -q -t

    Description number of requests. Default is 1 which is useless. concurrent requests. Default 1 GNU plot output. Labels are on first line of output. Suppress progress stattus output to stderr. Time limit. Maximum number of seconds.

    -A username:password Specify authentication credentials. -X proxy[:port] Specify a proxy server. See the ab man page for a list and description of all options.

    Shell Script A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. The shell is often considered a simple domain-specific programming language.[1] Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text.

    he basic concept of a shell script is a list of commands, which are listed in the order of execution. A good shell script will have comments, preceded by a pound sign, #, describing the steps. There are conditional tests, such as value A is greater than value B, loops allowing us to go through massive amounts of data, files to read and store data, and variables to read and store data, and the script may include functions. Shell scripts and functions are both interpreted. This means they are not compiled. We are going to write a many scripts in the next several tutorials. This would be a simple text file in which we would put our all the commands and several other required constructs that tell the shell environment what to do and when to do it.

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