Does this signify that my server will crash if 6 request happen concurrently? ab -n 10000 -c 100 URL This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0 Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking Server (be patient) apr_poll: The timeout specified has expired (70007) Total of 6 requests completed PHP:
If you examine that data, you will see that Apache was only very slightly behind the majority of the others. Their own server is this distinctly expensive as well.