Jmeter alternative

performance jmeter grinder
pistacchio picture pistacchio · Nov 18, 2009 · Viewed 48.3k times · Source

I'm looking for a freeware / simpler alternative to JMeter. It is a very complete yet complex tool and all I need is to simulate a number of simultaneous calls to a site, grab stats about performance (time to the response) and see how many concurrent calls it can endure without breaking. Some chart thrown in would be useful.

Answer

Asaph picture Asaph · Nov 18, 2009

Use Apache Benchmark (ab). It's a command line tool that ships with apache web server. If you're running *nix, chances are it's already installed on your machine. For example, if you want to send 1000 requests to a web server running on localhost using 10 concurrent threads you would do this:

$ ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost/

It'll spit out a nice report giving you interesting stats such as requests per second, number of failures, and much more.

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