Re: [us...@httpd] Weird timeout connections during benchmark (apache completely stops)?!

2009-04-16 Thread yalag
So unless I use multiple boxes, I'm not going to be able to service more than 50-100 requests per second no matter how fast apache is? -- From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:27 PM To: Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] Weird tim

[us...@httpd] How exactly does ab -n works? Please?

2009-04-16 Thread yalag
I read so many man pages but I still don't understand this, the -n flag basically tells it to make n number of requests. So assuming my server can take 10 request per second, I would expect ab -100 to take 10 seconds and ab -1000 to take 100 seconds. But that is not the case. I find that if I do

Re: [us...@httpd] Weird timeout connections during benchmark (apache completely stops)?!

2009-04-16 Thread yalag
[Test ~]# httpd -l Compiled in modules: core.c prefork.c http_core.c mod_so.c [Test ~]# httpd -v Server version: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) Server built: Mar 6 2009 09:12:52 It is a fresh install on fedora 10, with the default configuration benchmarking the default welcome page. Can anyone

Re: [us...@httpd] Weird timeout connections during benchmark (apache completely stops)?!

2009-04-16 Thread yalag
The error log is empty! Is there some sort of limit put on number of requests allowed from external host? I just tried ab -n 10 -c 300 http://localhost/ and it did not show the "drop dead" behavior after a certain period of time. However local benchmarking seems to have a ceiling of its own