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It is designed to give you an impression + of how your current Apache installation performs. This especially shows + you how many requests per second your Apache installation is capable of + serving.</p> +</div> +<div id="quickview"><a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html" class="badge"><img src="https://www.apache.org/images/SupportApache-small.png" alt="Support Apache!" /></a><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#synopsis">Synopsis</a></li> +<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#options">Options</a></li> +<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#output">Output</a></li> +<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#bugs">Bugs</a></li> +</ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code></li><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div> +<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="synopsis" id="synopsis">Synopsis</a></h2> + <p><code><strong>ab</strong> + [ -<strong>A</strong> <var>auth-username</var>:<var>password</var> ] + [ -<strong>b</strong> <var>windowsize</var> ] + [ -<strong>B</strong> <var>local-address</var> ] + [ -<strong>c</strong> <var>concurrency</var> ] + [ -<strong>C</strong> <var>cookie-name</var>=<var>value</var> ] + [ -<strong>d</strong> ] + [ -<strong>e</strong> <var>csv-file</var> ] + [ -<strong>E</strong> <var>client-certificate file</var> ] + [ -<strong>f</strong> <var>protocol</var> ] + [ -<strong>g</strong> <var>gnuplot-file</var> ] + [ -<strong>h</strong> ] + [ -<strong>H</strong> <var>custom-header</var> ] + [ -<strong>i</strong> ] + [ -<strong>k</strong> ] + [ -<strong>l</strong> ] + [ -<strong>m</strong> <var>HTTP-method</var> ] + [ -<strong>n</strong> <var>requests</var> ] + [ -<strong>p</strong> <var>POST-file</var> ] + [ -<strong>P</strong> <var>proxy-auth-username</var>:<var>password</var> ] + [ -<strong>q</strong> ] + [ -<strong>r</strong> ] + [ -<strong>s</strong> <var>timeout</var> ] + [ -<strong>S</strong> ] + [ -<strong>t</strong> <var>timelimit</var> ] + [ -<strong>T</strong> <var>content-type</var> ] + [ -<strong>u</strong> <var>PUT-file</var> ] + [ -<strong>v</strong> <var>verbosity</var>] + [ -<strong>V</strong> ] + [ -<strong>w</strong> ] + [ -<strong>x</strong> <var><table>-attributes</var> ] + [ -<strong>X</strong> <var>proxy</var>[:<var>port</var>] ] + [ -<strong>y</strong> <var><tr>-attributes</var> ] + [ -<strong>z</strong> <var><td>-attributes</var> ] + [ -<strong>Z</strong> <var>ciphersuite</var> ] + [http[s]://]<var>hostname</var>[:<var>port</var>]/<var>path</var></code></p> +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="options" id="options">Options</a></h2> + <dl> + <dt><code>-A <var>auth-username</var>:<var>password</var></code></dt> + <dd>Supply BASIC Authentication credentials to the server. The username and + password are separated by a single <code>:</code> and sent on the wire + base64 encoded. The string is sent regardless of whether the server needs + it (<em>i.e.</em>, has sent an 401 authentication needed).</dd> + + <dt><code>-b <var>windowsize</var></code></dt> + <dd>Size of TCP send/receive buffer, in bytes.</dd> + + <dt><code>-B <var>local-address</var></code></dt> + <dd>Address to bind to when making outgoing connections.</dd> + + <dt><code>-c <var>concurrency</var></code></dt> + <dd>Number of multiple requests to perform at a time. Default is one + request at a time.</dd> + + <dt><code>-C <var>cookie-name</var>=<var>value</var></code></dt> + <dd>Add a <code>Cookie:</code> line to the request. The argument is + typically in the form of a <code><var>name</var>=<var>value</var></code> + pair. This field is repeatable.</dd> + + <dt><code>-d</code></dt> + <dd>Do not display the "percentage served within XX [ms] table". (legacy + support).</dd> + + <dt><code>-e <var>csv-file</var></code></dt> + <dd>Write a Comma separated value (CSV) file which contains for each + percentage (from 1% to 100%) the time (in milliseconds) it took to serve + that percentage of the requests. This is usually more useful than the + 'gnuplot' file; as the results are already 'binned'.</dd> + + <dt><code>-E <var>client-certificate-file</var></code></dt> + <dd>When connecting to an SSL website, use the provided client certificate + in PEM format to authenticate with the server. The file is expected to + contain the client certificate, followed by intermediate certificates, + followed by the private key. Available in 2.4.36 and later.</dd> + + <dt><code>-f <var>protocol</var></code></dt> + <dd>Specify SSL/TLS protocol (SSL2, SSL3, TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2, or ALL). + TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 support available in 2.4.4 and later.</dd> + + <dt><code>-g <var>gnuplot-file</var></code></dt> + <dd>Write all measured values out as a 'gnuplot' or TSV (Tab separate + values) file. This file can easily be imported into packages like Gnuplot, + IDL, Mathematica, Igor or even Excel. The labels are on the first line of + the file. </dd> + + <dt><code>-h</code></dt> + <dd>Display usage information.</dd> + + <dt><code>-H <var>custom-header</var></code></dt> + <dd>Append extra headers to the request. The argument is typically in + the form of a valid header line, containing a colon-separated field-value + pair (<em>i.e.</em>, <code>"Accept-Encoding: zip/zop;8bit"</code>).</dd> + + <dt><code>-i</code></dt> + <dd>Do <code>HEAD</code> requests instead of <code>GET</code>.</dd> + + <dt><code>-k</code></dt> + <dd>Enable the HTTP KeepAlive feature, <em>i.e.</em>, perform multiple + requests within one HTTP session. Default is no KeepAlive.</dd> + + <dt><code>-l</code></dt> + <dd>Do not report errors if the length of the responses is not constant. This + can be useful for dynamic pages. + Available in 2.4.7 and later. + </dd> + + <dt><code>-m <var>HTTP-method</var></code></dt> + <dd>Custom HTTP method for the requests. + Available in 2.4.10 and later.</dd> + + <dt><code>-n <var>requests</var></code></dt> + <dd>Number of requests to perform for the benchmarking session. The default + is to just perform a single request which usually leads to + non-representative benchmarking results.</dd> + + <dt><code>-p <var>POST-file</var></code></dt> + <dd>File containing data to POST. Remember to also set <code>-T</code>.</dd> + + <dt><code>-P <var>proxy-auth-username</var>:<var>password</var></code></dt> + <dd>Supply BASIC Authentication credentials to a proxy en-route. The + username and password are separated by a single <code>:</code> and sent on + the wire base64 encoded. The string is sent regardless of whether the + proxy needs it (<em>i.e.</em>, has sent an 407 proxy authentication + needed).</dd> + + <dt><code>-q</code></dt> + <dd>When processing more than 150 requests, <code>ab</code> outputs a + progress count on <code>stderr</code> every 10% or 100 requests or so. The + <code>-q</code> flag will suppress these messages.</dd> + + <dt><code>-r</code></dt> + <dd>Don't exit on socket receive errors.</dd> + + <dt><code>-s <var>timeout</var></code></dt> + <dd>Maximum number of seconds to wait before the socket times out. + Default is 30 seconds. + Available in 2.4.4 and later.</dd> + + <dt><code>-S</code></dt> + <dd>Do not display the median and standard deviation values, nor display + the warning/error messages when the average and median are more than + one or two times the standard deviation apart. And default to the + min/avg/max values. (legacy support).</dd> + + <dt><code>-t <var>timelimit</var></code></dt> + <dd>Maximum number of seconds to spend for benchmarking. This implies a + <code>-n 50000</code> internally. Use this to benchmark the server within a + fixed total amount of time. Per default there is no timelimit.</dd> + + <dt><code>-T <var>content-type</var></code></dt> + <dd>Content-type header to use for POST/PUT data, eg. + <code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code>. + Default is <code>text/plain</code>.</dd> + + <dt><code>-u <var>PUT-file</var></code></dt> + <dd>File containing data to PUT. Remember to also set <code>-T</code>.</dd> + + <dt><code>-v <var>verbosity</var></code></dt> + <dd>Set verbosity level - <code>4</code> and above prints information on + headers, <code>3</code> and above prints response codes (404, 200, etc.), + <code>2</code> and above prints warnings and info.</dd> + + <dt><code>-V</code></dt> + <dd>Display version number and exit.</dd> + + <dt><code>-w</code></dt> + <dd>Print out results in HTML tables. Default table is two columns wide, + with a white background.</dd> + + <dt><code>-x <var><table>-attributes</var></code></dt> + <dd>String to use as attributes for <code><table></code>. Attributes + are inserted <code><table <var>here</var> ></code>.</dd> + + <dt><code>-X <var>proxy</var>[:<var>port</var>]</code></dt> + <dd>Use a proxy server for the requests.</dd> + + <dt><code>-y <var><tr>-attributes</var></code></dt> + <dd>String to use as attributes for <code><tr></code>.</dd> + + <dt><code>-z <var><td>-attributes</var></code></dt> + <dd>String to use as attributes for <code><td></code>.</dd> + + <dt><code>-Z <var>ciphersuite</var></code></dt> + <dd>Specify SSL/TLS cipher suite (See openssl ciphers)</dd> + </dl> +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="output" id="output">Output</a></h2> + <p>The following list describes the values returned by <code>ab</code>: + </p> + + <dl> + <dt>Server Software</dt> + <dd>The value, if any, returned in the <var>server</var> HTTP header + of the first successful response. This includes all characters in the + header from beginning to the point a character with decimal value of 32 + (most notably: a space or CR/LF) is detected.</dd> + + <dt>Server Hostname</dt> + <dd>The DNS or IP address given on the command line</dd> + + <dt>Server Port</dt> + <dd>The port to which ab is connecting. If no port is given on the + command line, this will default to 80 for http and 443 for + https.</dd> + + <dt>SSL/TLS Protocol</dt> + <dd>The protocol parameters negotiated between the client and server. + This will only be printed if SSL is used.</dd> + + <dt>Document Path</dt> + <dd>The request URI parsed from the command line string.</dd> + + <dt>Document Length</dt> + <dd>This is the size in bytes of the first successfully returned document. + If the document length changes during testing, the response is + considered an error.</dd> + + <dt>Concurrency Level</dt> + <dd>The number of concurrent clients used during the test</dd> + + <dt>Time taken for tests</dt> + <dd>This is the time taken from the moment the first socket connection + is created to the moment the last response is received</dd> + + <dt>Complete requests</dt> + <dd>The number of successful responses received</dd> + + <dt>Failed requests</dt> + <dd>The number of requests that were considered a failure. If the + number is greater than zero, another line will be printed showing the + number of requests that failed due to connecting, reading, incorrect + content length, or exceptions.</dd> + + <dt>Write errors</dt> + <dd>The number of errors that failed during write (broken pipe).</dd> + + <dt>Non-2xx responses</dt> + <dd>The number of responses that were not in the 200 series of response + codes. If all responses were 200, this field is not printed.</dd> + + <dt>Keep-Alive requests</dt> + <dd>The number of connections that resulted in Keep-Alive requests</dd> + + <dt>Total body sent</dt> + <dd>If configured to send data as part of the test, this is the total + number of bytes sent during the tests. This field is omitted if the test + did not include a body to send.</dd> + + <dt>Total transferred</dt> + <dd>The total number of bytes received from the server. This number + is essentially the number of bytes sent over the wire.</dd> + + <dt>HTML transferred</dt> + <dd>The total number of document bytes received from the server. This + number excludes bytes received in HTTP headers</dd> + + <dt>Requests per second</dt> + <dd>This is the number of requests per second. This value is the result + of dividing the number of requests by the total time taken</dd> + + <dt>Time per request</dt> + <dd>The average time spent per request. The first value is calculated + with the formula <code>concurrency * timetaken * 1000 / done</code> + while the second value is calculated with the formula + <code>timetaken * 1000 / done</code></dd> + + <dt>Transfer rate</dt> + <dd>The rate of transfer as calculated by the formula + <code>totalread / 1024 / timetaken</code></dd> + </dl> +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="bugs" id="bugs">Bugs</a></h2> + <p>There are various statically declared buffers of fixed length. Combined + with the lazy parsing of the command line arguments, the response headers + from the server and other external inputs, this might bite you.</p> + + <p>It does not implement HTTP/1.x fully; only accepts some 'expected' forms + of responses. The rather heavy use of <code>strstr(3)</code> shows up top + in profile, which might indicate a performance problem; <em>i.e.</em>, you + would measure the <code>ab</code> performance rather than the server's.</p> +</div></div> +<div class="bottomlang"> +<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/programs/ab.html" title="English"> en </a> | +<a href="../fr/programs/ab.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français"> fr </a> | +<a href="../ko/programs/ab.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | +<a href="../tr/programs/ab.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe"> tr </a></p> +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img src="../images/up.gif" alt="top" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a id="comments_section" name="comments_section">Comments</a></h2><div class="warning"><strong>Notice:</strong><br />This is not a Q&A section. 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