Interpreting Results for apache benchmarking tool

[Ankit Kapoor <ankit.11nov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I am using apache as a streaming server.
So will it be fine if I am using ab tool for stress testing apache in this scenario.
Confusion is coming up as till now I have seen ab being used for testing static html web pages. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Also can you point to any document which can help in understanding the results from the ab tool specially the one in bold below, pardon my ignorance as I am new to this.

ab -n 200 -c 200 http://<IP>/Sourcefiles/MP4480psource/1.mp4

 

Output from the tool:

Benchmarking <IP> (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Finished 200 requests

Server Software:        Apache/2.0.63
Server Hostname:        <IP>
Server Port:            80

 

Document Path:          /Sourcefiles/MP4480psource/1.mp4
Document Length:        156781715 bytes

 

Concurrency Level:      200
Time taken for tests:   285.002 seconds
Complete requests:      200
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      858884154 bytes
HTML transferred:       858813144 bytes
Requests per second:    0.70 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       285000.000 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       1425.000 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          2943.00 [Kbytes/sec] received

 

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0 1115 1593.4      0    3383
Processing: 17842 250919 58760.0 279784  284097
Waiting:       26 33773 19468.5  33856   68026
Total:      17842 252034 59346.5 279951  284959

 

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%  279951
  66%  283429
  75%  284097
  80%  284450
  90%  284776
  95%  284890
  98%  284950
  99%  284950
 100%  284959 (longest request)

Regards
Ankit Kapoor