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AB(1)				      ab				 AB(1)

NAME
       ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

SYNOPSIS
       ab [ -A auth-username:password ] [ -b windowsize ] [ -B local-address ]
       [ -c concurrency ] [ -C cookie-name=value ] [ -d ] [ -e csv-file ] [ -f
       protocol	 ] [ -g gnuplot-file ] [ -h ] [ -H custom-header ] [ -i ] [ -k
       ] [ -n requests ] [ -p POST-file ] [ -P proxy-auth-username:password  ]
       [  -q ] [ -r ] [ -s timeout ] [ -S ] [ -t timelimit ] [ -T content-type
       ] [ -u PUT-file ] [ -v verbosity] [ -V ] [ -w ] [ -x <table>-attributes
       ]  [  -X proxy[:port] ] [ -y <tr>-attributes ] [ -z <td>-attributes ] [
       -Z ciphersuite ] [http[s]://]hostname[:port]/path

SUMMARY
       ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext  Transfer  Protocol
       (HTTP)  server.	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 serv‐
       ing.

OPTIONS
       -A auth-username:password
	      Supply BASIC Authentication credentials to the server. The user‐
	      name  and	 password  are separated by a single : and sent on the
	      wire base64 encoded. The string is sent  regardless  of  whether
	      the  server  needs  it  (i.e.,  has  sent	 an 401 authentication
	      needed).

       -b windowsize
	      Size of TCP send/receive buffer, in bytes.

       -B local-address
	      Address to bind to when making outgoing connections.

       -c concurrency
	      Number of multiple requests to perform at a time. Default is one
	      request at a time.

       -C cookie-name=value
	      Add  a Cookie: line to the request. The argument is typically in
	      the form of a name=value pair. This field is repeatable.

       -d     Do not display the "percentage served  within  XX	 [ms]  table".
	      (legacy support).

       -e csv-file
	      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'.

       -f protocol
	      Specify SSL/TLS protocol (SSL2, SSL3, TLS1, or ALL).

       -g gnuplot-file
	      Write  all  measured values out as a 'gnuplot' or TSV (Tab sepa‐
	      rate values) file. This file can easily be imported  into	 pack‐
	      ages  like  Gnuplot,  IDL,  Mathematica, Igor or even Excel. The
	      labels are on the first line of the file.

       -h     Display usage information.

       -H custom-header
	      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 (i.e., "Accept-Encoding: zip/zop;8bit").

       -i     Do HEAD requests instead of GET.

       -k     Enable  the  HTTP	 KeepAlive  feature,  i.e.,  perform  multiple
	      requests within one HTTP session. Default is no KeepAlive.

       -n requests
	      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.

       -p POST-file
	      File containing data to POST. Remember to also set -T.

       -P proxy-auth-username:password
	      Supply BASIC Authentication credentials to a proxy en-route. The
	      username and password are separated by a single :	 and  sent  on
	      the  wire	 base64	 encoded.  The	string	is  sent regardless of
	      whether the proxy needs it (i.e., has sent an 407 proxy  authen‐
	      tication needed).

       -q     When  processing	more  than 150 requests, ab outputs a progress
	      count on stderr every 10% or 100 requests or  so.	 The  -q  flag
	      will suppress these messages.

       -r     Don't exit on socket receive errors.

       -s timeout
	      Maximum  number  of seconds to wait before the socket times out.
	      Default is 30 seconds.

       -S     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).

       -t timelimit
	      Maximum  number  of  seconds  to	spend  for  benchmarking. This
	      implies a -n 50000 internally. Use this to benchmark the	server
	      within  a	 fixed	total  amount of time. Per default there is no
	      timelimit.

       -T content-type
	      Content-type header to use for POST/PUT data, eg. application/x-
	      www-form-urlencoded. Default is text/plain.

       -u PUT-file
	      File containing data to PUT. Remember to also set -T.

       -v verbosity
	      Set verbosity level - 4 and above prints information on headers,
	      3 and above prints response codes (404, 200, etc.), 2 and	 above
	      prints warnings and info.

       -V     Display version number and exit.

       -w     Print  out  results in HTML tables. Default table is two columns
	      wide, with a white background.

       -x <table>-attributes
	      String to use as attributes for <table>. Attributes are inserted
	      <table here >.

       -X proxy[:port]
	      Use a proxy server for the requests.

       -y <tr>-attributes
	      String to use as attributes for <tr>.

       -z <td>-attributes
	      String to use as attributes for <td>.

       -Z ciphersuite
	      Specify SSL/TLS cipher suite (See openssl ciphers)

OUTPUT
       The following list describes the values returned by ab:

       Server Software
	      The  value,  if  any,  returned in the server 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.

       Server Hostname
	      The DNS or IP address given on the command line

       Server Port
	      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.

       SSL/TLS Protocol
	      The  protocol  parameters	 negotiated  between  the  client  and
	      server. This will only be printed if SSL is used.

       Document Path
	      The request URI parsed from the command line string.

       Document Length
	      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.

       Concurrency Level
	      The number of concurrent clients used during the test

       Time taken for tests
	      This  is the time taken from the moment the first socket connec‐
	      tion is created to the moment the last response is received

       Complete requests
	      The number of successful responses received

       Failed requests
	      The number of requests that were considered a  failure.  If  the
	      number  is greater than zero, another line will be printed show‐
	      ing the number of requests that failed due to connecting,	 read‐
	      ing, incorrect content length, or exceptions.

       Write errors
	      The number of errors that failed during write (broken pipe).

       Non-2xx responses
	      The  number  of  responses  that	were  not in the 200 series of
	      response codes. If all responses were 200,  this	field  is  not
	      printed.

       Keep-Alive requests
	      The number of connections that resulted in Keep-Alive requests

       Total body sent
	      If  configured  to  send	data  as part of the test, this is the
	      total number of bytes sent during the tests. This field is omit‐
	      ted if the test did not include a body to send.

       Total transferred
	      The  total number of bytes received from the server. This number
	      is essentially the number of bytes sent over the wire.

       HTML transferred
	      The total number of document bytes  received  from  the  server.
	      This number excludes bytes received in HTTP headers

       Requests per second
	      This  is	the  number  of requests per second. This value is the
	      result of dividing the number of	requests  by  the  total  time
	      taken

       Time per request
	      The  average  time  spent per request. The first value is calcu‐
	      lated with the formula concurrency * timetaken  *	 1000  /  done
	      while  the second value is calculated with the formula timetaken
	      * 1000 / done

       Transfer rate
	      The rate of transfer as calculated by the	 formula  totalread  /
	      1024 / timetaken

BUGS
       There are various statically declared buffers of fixed length. Combined
       with the lazy parsing of the command line arguments, the response head‐
       ers from the server and other external inputs, this might bite you.

       It  does	 not  implement	 HTTP/1.x  fully; only accepts some 'expected'
       forms of responses. The rather heavy use of strstr(3) shows up  top  in
       profile,	 which	might  indicate a performance problem; i.e., you would
       measure the ab performance rather than the server's.

Apache HTTP Server		  2013-01-09				 AB(1)
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