Measuring web server performance

[ASTRAPI]

Hello

Is there anyway to measure the performance of a linux web server ?

I need the program that you will recomend me to generate traffic on the server as no one is online as i test it at this state.

Thank you

[Bono]

on server where you have apache installed: "ab"

[ASTRAPI]

Thank you bono but i need a solution to compare performance for Apache nginx and litettpd...

[Bono]

That tool is standard for benchmarks.

[Guest]

[quote name='Bono' date='26 November 2009 - 10:44 AM' timestamp='1259232283' post='1882570']
That tool is standard for benchmarks.


... and to clarify: it will benchmark any HTTP server, not just Apache.

[ASTRAPI]

Command not found when i try to benchmark litespeed :(

ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8088/index.php

[sergiu]

you can try unixbench
http://ftp.tux.org/pub/benchmarks/System/unixbench/