ApacheBench'ing PHP page

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Lucky Bastard, Mar 30, 2005.

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    I'm trying to test the performance of a fairly large PHP (not earth shattering) script using ApacheBench (which I just discovered by accident today in google. :cool:).

    However I am getting results that confuse me. An extract when benchmarking 30 request, concurrency 1:
    Complete requests : 30
    Failed requests : 29 (connect:0, Length:29, Exceptions:0)

    Failed requests? WHAT THE? :) The site is up and working.

    Can anyone give me a helping hand and explain this? Can't find anything in google.


    THANKS!
     
    Lucky Bastard, Mar 30, 2005 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    What's the URL to it? I was looking for something to benchmark PHP, but never found anything (didn't look *too* hard of course). heh
     
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  3. hulkster

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    ApacheBench is part of standard apache distribution - see APACHE-INSTALL-DIR/bin/ab

    This is a nice quick-n-dirty way to benchmark stuff to see if changes helped - was real helpful when I was fiddling with mod_perl.

    No ideas on the "Failed Requests" - sorry.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    I know... I figured it out after I posted it. :)
     
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    I start my pages (for testing) with
    $t1=microtime(); $t4=date('U');
    PHP:
    and end them with
    $t2=microtime(); $t5=date('U'); $t6=$t5-$t4; $t3=$t2-$t1; $t7=$t6+$t3;
echo "<br><strong>This HTML Page was Dynamically Generated and written Specifically for You.
&nbsp; This page took &nbsp; $t7 &nbsp;seconds to write.</strong>\n";
    PHP:
     
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