MaGe Linux Operations

Jun 24, 2014 · Operations

How to Benchmark Web Servers with http_load, webbench, ab, and Siege

This guide introduces four lightweight Linux web‑server benchmarking tools—http_load, webbench, Apache’s ab, and Siege—explaining their installation, command‑line options, example usage, and how to interpret key performance metrics such as fetches per second, response times, and throughput.