Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Autobench

Autobench is a Perl script that makes use of httperf more efficiently. It runs continuous tests and automatically increases request rates until your server gets saturated. One of the interesting features of Autobench is that it generates a .tsv report that you can open with various applications to generate graphs. You may download the source code from the author's personal website at http://www.xenoclast.org/autobench/. Once again, extract the files from the archive, run make, then make install.

Although it supports testing of multiple hosts at once, we will only be using the single host test for more simplicity. The command we will execute resembles the httperf one:

[alex@example ~]$ autobench --single_host --host1 192.168.1.10 ...