Apache Bench-Testing Multiple URLs Concurrently

In this chapter, we will learn about Apache Bench-Testing Multiple URLs Concurrently, how to test multiple URLs concurrently. For that, we will need to edit our application file, app.py to include two URLs −

from bottle import Bottle, run

app = Bottle()

@app.route('/')
@app.route('/hello1')
def hello():
   return "Hello World! It is first URL."

@app.route('/hello2')
def hello():
   return "Hello World! It is second URL."

run(app,server = 'gunicorn',host = '127.0.0.1', port = 8080)

Creating a Simple Shell Script

You can do this by creating a shell script, with multiple ab calls. Create a file test.sh and add the following lines to it −

ab -n 100 -c 10 http://127.0.0.1:8080/hello1 
ab -n 100 -c 10 http://127.0.0.1:8080/hello2

When you have added the above lines, Save and Close the file. Make the file executable −

chmod u+x test.sh

Let us now run the script −

./test.sh

To avoid repetition and purpose of clarity, we will show only the relevant of the ab output, indicating by dots what portion has been omitted, as in the following.

Output

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Document Path:          /hello1
Document Length:        732 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   0.040 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Non-2xx responses:      100
Total transferred:      90000 bytes
HTML transferred:       73200 bytes
Requests per second:    2496.13 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       4.006 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.401 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          2193.87 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.8      0       3
Processing:     1    3   1.0      4       5
Waiting:        0    3   1.2      4       4
Total:          1    4   0.6      4       5
WARNING: The median and mean for the processing time are not within a normal deviation
        These results are probably not that reliable.
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Shell Script to Save the Apache Bench Output to a File

You can save the Apache Bench Output to file by creating a shell script, with multiple ab calls. At the end of each line, place an &; this makes the command run in the background, and lets the next command start its execution. You will also want to redirect the output to a file for each url using <filename>. For example, our file test.sh will look like the following after modification −

$ ab -n 100 -c 10 http://127.0.0.1:8080/hello1 > test1.txt &
$ ab -n 100 -c 10 http://127.0.0.1:8080/hello2 > test2.txt &

Here, test1.txt and test2.txt are the files to save the output data.

You can check that the above script has created two files, test1.txt and test2.txt which contains the ab output for the respective URLs −

$ ls -l

Output

...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5225 May 30 12:11 out.data
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root   118 Jun 10 12:24 test.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1291 Jun 10 12:31 test1.txt
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root    91 Jun 10 13:22 test2.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1291 Jun 10 12:31 test2.txt
...

Watch-out Situation

While using ab, you should be alert to the failed test without warning. For example, if you check a wrong URL, you may get something similar to the following (we have deliberately changed the port here).

$ ab -l -r -n 100 -c 10 -k -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate"  http://127.0.0.1:805/

Output

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1604373 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient).....done

Server Software:
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            805

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        Variable

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   0.002 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        150
   (Connect: 0, Receive: 100, Length: 0, Exceptions: 50)
Keep-Alive requests:    0
Total transferred:      0 bytes
HTML transferred:       0 bytes
Requests per second:    44984.26 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       0.222 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.022 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          0.00 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Processing:     0    0   0.2      0       0
Waiting:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Total:          0    0   0.2      0       0

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%      0
  66%      0
  75%      0
  80%      0
  90%      0
  95%      0
  98%      0
  99%      0
 100%      0 (longest request)

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