Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
ApacheBench is actully a command line program for measuring the performance of HTTP web servers. It was designed to give an idea of the performance that a given Apache installation can provide.
For bench marking the apache we can use the tool ab.
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 sec-ond your Apache installation is capable of serving.
The syntax for using the tool is as follows.
-n: specifies the number of request that is to be sent to the apache server for the bench marking session.
-c: specifies the number of multiple requests to perform at a time to the server.
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