Hi All, I am using apache as a streaming server. So will it be fine if I am using ab tool for stress testing apache in this scenario. Confusion is coming up as till now I have seen ab being used for testing static html web pages. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Also can you point to any document which can help in understanding the results from the ab tool specially the one in bold below, pardon my ignorance as I am new to this. ab -n 200 -c 200 http://<IP>/Sourcefiles/MP4480psource/1.mp4<http://10.234.23.207/Sourcefiles/MP4480psource/1.mp4> *Output from the tool:* Benchmarking <IP> (be patient) Completed 100 requests Finished 200 requests Server Software: Apache/2.0.63 Server Hostname: <IP> Server Port: 80 Document Path: /Sourcefiles/MP4480psource/1.mp4 Document Length: 156781715 bytes Concurrency Level: 200 Time taken for tests: 285.002 seconds Complete requests: 200 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 858884154 bytes HTML transferred: 858813144 bytes Requests per second: 0.70 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 285000.000 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 1425.000 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 2943.00 [Kbytes/sec] received *Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 1115 1593.4 0 3383 Processing: 17842 250919 58760.0 279784 284097 Waiting: 26 33773 19468.5 33856 68026 Total: 17842 252034 59346.5 279951 284959* Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 279951 66% 283429 75% 284097 80% 284450 90% 284776 95% 284890 98% 284950 99% 284950 100% 284959 (longest request) Regards Ankit Kapoor
