Apache Bench

[Nabarupa Banerjee <na...@msn.com>]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am trying to use Apache Bench to test an IIS web server on which an ASP application is residing ?
Our server machine is a P IV WIN NT m/c and the client m/c's are PIII WIN 2000 m/c's. In the current set up is it possible for us to use Apache Bench for testing ?

Does Apache Bench only work for a UNIX environment ?

When I downloaded Apache bench from the web site :
http://www.xenoclast.org/autobench/
I found .tar files which I unzipped using winzip to get many .c files.Are we supposed to compile these .c files or is there any executable already existing ?

Do guide me regarding the same.

What is an APR ? It seems with an APR Apache Bench can be ported to an NT machine ? What is the meaning of this sentence ?

Too many doubts..Pls help.

Regards,

Nabarupa.Get more from the Web.  FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Re: Apache Bench

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@covalent.net>]

From: "Joshua Chamas" <jo...@chamas.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:08 AM


> Last I checked, ab which comes with Apache, had not yet been ported
> to NT/2000 officially.  However, there does seem to be a port
> available here:
> 
>   http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/ab/
> 
> Upon testing their precompiled version however, I found that
> that it doesn't seem to work too well, in that it can only 
> do some 1 request per 4 seconds :(

Uhmmm... I use it every day or so.

Suggest you look at Apache 2.0 - it runs quite well.  Of course 1.3 will
never be ported, it's just too tangled, but ab for Apache 2.0 should work
on native win32 (as well as cygwin now that Stipe has patched to work 
around cygwin/WinSock incompatibilites.)

Re: Apache Bench

[Adi Fairbank <ad...@certsite.com>]

I got an e-mail a while back from one of the CPAN testers that my Perl API
version of ApacheBench worked on Cygwin.  I don't know how that compares to
straight NT/2000, but you might try compiling ab with Cygwin.  Since my code
is based on ab, in theory ab should also work on Cygwin.  You could also
just use the my Perl version of ab which has most of the same functionality
as ab.  Let me know if it works for you.

-Adi

Joshua Chamas wrote:
> 
> Last I checked, ab which comes with Apache, had not yet been ported
> to NT/2000 officially.  However, there does seem to be a port
> available here:
> 
>   http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/ab/
> 
> Upon testing their precompiled version however, I found that
> that it doesn't seem to work too well, in that it can only
> do some 1 request per 4 seconds :(
> 
> -- Josh
> _________________________________________________________________
> Joshua Chamas                           Chamas Enterprises Inc.
> NodeWorks Founder                       Huntington Beach, CA  USA
> http://www.nodeworks.com                1-714-625-4051

Re: Apache Bench

[Joshua Chamas <jo...@chamas.com>]

Last I checked, ab which comes with Apache, had not yet been ported
to NT/2000 officially.  However, there does seem to be a port
available here:

  http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/ab/

Upon testing their precompiled version however, I found that
that it doesn't seem to work too well, in that it can only 
do some 1 request per 4 seconds :(

-- Josh
_________________________________________________________________
Joshua Chamas                           Chamas Enterprises Inc.
NodeWorks Founder                       Huntington Beach, CA  USA 
http://www.nodeworks.com                1-714-625-4051