You can benchmark Apache, IIS and other web server with apache benchmarking tool called ab. Recently I was asked to performance benchmarks for different web servers.
It is true that benchmarking a web server is not an easy task. From how to benchmark a web server.
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."
Here are few tips to carry out procedure along with an example:
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
How do I carry out Web server Static KeepAlive test?
$ ab -k -n 1000 -c 5 http://202.54.200.1/snkpage.html
3 comments:
Thank you for this article. This is really good one for apache performance benchmarks.
Regards,
Milan Gothe
Thank you. This helped me a lot. Please carry on posting.
That isn't much of a load to put on a server. I'm not sure how much you can learn from this. I use ab and do 1000 concurrent connections and 1000000 page views. Then you can see when a server stops working.
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