Performing load test in Apache HTTPD with ab benchmarking tool

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 7.x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL)
    • 2.x
    • 3.x
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS)
    • 3.0.x
  • Red Hat JBoss Core Services (JBCS)
  • Apache HTTPD server
    • 2.4.x

Issue

How to perform a stress test on Apache HTTPD server?

Resolution

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Apache has a tool called ab.

That tool is automatically installed with the httpd package in RHEL.

This is an example:

 ab -c 100 -n 10000 http://yourserverip/index.html

That will test 100 multiple requests at a time (-c argument) and 10000 requests (-n argument).

For more information about the ab tool refer to Content from httpd.apache.org is not included.ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

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