Hi to all! I need help to understand the ab output. I tried a lot of associations to the values but I always get an inconsistency :( Below, is an example of output: ########################################################################## $ /usr/bin/time ab -n 1 -c 1 http://localhost/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.41-dev <$Revision: 1.141 $> apache-2.0 Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking localhost (be patient).....done Server Software: Apache/1.3.33 Server Hostname: localhost Server Port: 80 Document Path: / Document Length: 5258 bytes Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 0.1216 seconds Complete requests: 1 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 5539 bytes HTML transferred: 5258 bytes Requests per second: 822.37 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 1.216 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 1.216 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 4111.84 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Processing: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Waiting: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Total: 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.01user 0.01system 0:00.01elapsed 166%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (479major+49minor)pagefaults 0swaps ########################################################################## I would like to understand the values "Time taken for tests", "Time per request (mean)" and "Time per request (mean, across all concurrent requests)". 1-) I did think that "Time taken for tests" was the runtime of ab, but isn't (See the "time" output). What's the meaning of "Time taken for tests"?? 2-) What's the meaning of [ms]? It's miliseconds? 3-) What's the relation linking "Time per request" and "Time taken for tests"? If I run the ab with 1 request and 1 concurrency level, these values don't must to be equal? 4-) What's the relation linking "Time per request (mean)" and "Time per request (mean, across all concurrent requests)"? Thank you for atention, Best regards, Daniel Macêdo Batista daniel.batista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~ra030022 Mestrando em Ciência da Computação pela Unicamp --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx