Stress testing apache 2.2 with ab

["Krish, Sailesh" <skrishnamur1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

I would like to stress test an apache web server using ab. How do I get it to send a certain number of requests per hour? Do we need to use the –t option. The man page is not very clear. Basically Im trying to simulate ccurrent usage and see the behaviour when I add some more load.The current usage statistics on the web server are as below:

 

.	Avg	Max
Hits per Hour	7272	26925
Hits per Day	174532	323706
Files per Day	109310	202612
Pages per Day	123434	228832
Sites per Day	10	21
Visits per Day	507	969
KBytes per Day	22448481	42197378

 

Thanks for the help.