> Pretty bad numbers actually, aren't you limited by the network > bandwidth between ab and the server? I think it isn't a bandwidth problem. Look ... wget https://domain.tld/test.zip --2022-03-24 12:04:26-- https://domain.tld/test.zip Resolving domain.tld (domain.tld)... 82.x.x.x Connecting to domain.tld (domain.tld)|82.x.x.x|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 688466403 (657M) [application/zip] Saving to: ‘test.zip’ test.zip 100%[===========================================================================================>] 656.57M 11.2MB/s in 59s 2022-03-24 12:05:25 (11.2 MB/s) - ‘test.zip’ saved [688466403/688466403] > What are the numbers from ab when it's running on the server (i.e. ab > ... https://localhost/index.html)? Not good (this test is made from the same server where are hosted www.domain.tld) ... ab -l -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' -k -n 10000 -c 1000 https://www.domain.tld/index.html This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1843412 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking www.domain.tld (be patient) Completed 1000 requests Completed 2000 requests Completed 3000 requests Completed 4000 requests Completed 5000 requests Completed 6000 requests Completed 7000 requests Completed 8000 requests Completed 9000 requests Completed 10000 requests Finished 10000 requests Server Software: Apache Server Hostname: www.domain.tld Server Port: 443 SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1.2,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,2048,128 Server Temp Key: X25519 253 bits TLS Server Name: www.domain.tld Document Path: /index.html Document Length: Variable Concurrency Level: 1000 Time taken for tests: 262.963 seconds Complete requests: 10000 Failed requests: 0 Non-2xx responses: 9582 Keep-Alive requests: 9582 Total transferred: 57837957 bytes HTML transferred: 49816818 bytes Requests per second: 38.03 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 26296.304 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 26.296 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 214.79 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 292 1179.6 0 8078 Processing: 0 24796 6927.5 27341 54249 Waiting: 0 25726 5596.4 27377 54249 Total: 0 25088 6821.9 27372 54249 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 27372 66% 27532 75% 27641 80% 27767 90% 28015 95% 28133 98% 31766 99% 40137 100% 54249 (longest request > The CPU usage looks high (20%) too for the requested load, but that's > probably on mod_deflate (and TLS handshakes), how does "-H > 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate'" change things? I tried without the -H option and I got similar results ab -l -k -n 10000 -c 1000 https://www.domain.tld/index.php This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1843412 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking www.domain.tld (be patient) Completed 1000 requests Completed 2000 requests Completed 3000 requests Completed 4000 requests Completed 5000 requests Completed 6000 requests Completed 7000 requests Completed 8000 requests Completed 9000 requests Completed 10000 requests Finished 10000 requests Server Software: Apache Server Hostname: www.domain.tld Server Port: 443 SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1.2,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,2048,128 Server Temp Key: X25519 253 bits TLS Server Name: www.domain.tld Document Path: /index.php Document Length: Variable Concurrency Level: 1000 Time taken for tests: 325.617 seconds Complete requests: 10000 Failed requests: 0 Keep-Alive requests: 0 Total transferred: 1571880000 bytes HTML transferred: 1564400000 bytes Requests per second: 30.71 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 32561.691 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 32.562 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 4714.25 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 1 177 610.2 2 3500 Processing: 334 30715 5844.0 32449 48394 Waiting: 218 30593 5846.3 32327 48264 Total: 336 30892 5586.1 32456 48396 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 32456 66% 32616 75% 32700 80% 32733 90% 32833 95% 32934 98% 33002 99% 33033 100% 48396 (longest request) > Sorry, more questions than answers, but results on my (poor) laptop look like: Oh, no! 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