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aidenn0 on Dec 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Benchmarking Nginx with Go

ab needs to die. Yesterday, if possible.

jonahx on Dec 15, 2013 [–]

what's your favorite alternative?

bhauer on Dec 15, 2013 | | [–]

Wrk [1] is my preference. Time-limited tests. Average and standard deviation on latency. And now with Lua scripting.

If you must use an ApacheBench-style tool, at least use the multi-threaded clone named WeigHTTP [2].

With high-performance servers, ApacheBench is a limiting factor.

[1] https://github.com/wg/wrk

[2] https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp

mrmagooey on Dec 15, 2013 | | [–]

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