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NEST Network Emulation: httperf parser fails with AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group
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I'm trying to run HTTP emulation experiments using NEST (Network Emulation and Simulation Testbed) but encountering parser errors with httperf output due to regex pattern mismatches.
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Compiling httperf on Mac
Wondering if anyone can tell what's going on? After slogging through compilation trial and error all day, I've got a httperf that compiles and runs yet fails to connect to anything. It now barfs with "...
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Usage of httperf
I had installed httperf on Fedora 21/Ubuntu 12.04 and tried to make a simple test with following command:
httperf --server www.google.com
It always gives me the following result:
httperf --client=0/...
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Httperf file descriptor limit
My problem is the same as this question and this question
I basicly want trying to run httperf with 10000 connection in parallel like this [httperf --uri / --server 192.168.1.2 --port 8080 --num-...
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how to pass multiple uri's or more number of requests in a file in httperf tool
I need to do load testing for my application using httperf where i need to send multiple requests to the server and not just one webservice.
How do i pass multiple uri's in httperf? Also how can i put ...
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Gatling vs httperf
I am trying to stress test one simple server with 10K connections per seconds; it's pretty dummy server so this should be possible.
When I run gatling, the best I can get is 7K, at 8K we start to ...
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Is it possible to log request results in httperf?
I'm using httperf for load testing. I have two HTTP endpoints to be tested.
However, the second endpoint needs the result of the first one. That is, requests to the second endpoint need to pass a ...
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Httperf Configuration
I want to configure httperf in a way that it wait for page to load all attached files. In my case, there are 2 Javascript files which are attached with this page.
What should its command in this case. ...
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httperf: connection failed with unexpected error 0
Has anybody seen "httperf: connection failed with unexpected error 0" when running httperf with --ssl?
This is blocking my test on that domain. When I tested --ssl on https://google.com it worked ...
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httperf benchmarking for file upload using POST
I want to benchmark uploading of files to a remote server using HTTPERF
I know that there is a wsesslog option where I can give entries for form data.
But can I send a post request for a file as ...
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Need help in understanding httperf num_calls and num_conns
When I run httperf with following options, the output is easy to understand.
Options: Make total 10 connections (num-conns) at rate of 10 (rate) connections/second with 2 request calls per connection ...
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httperf for bechmarking web-servers
I am using httperf to benchmark web-servers. My configuration, i5 processor and 4GB RAM. How to stress this configuration to get accurate results...? I mean I have to put 100% load on this server(12....
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Httperf wsesslog Understanding
I have file by the name sessions.txt which has contents:
url1
url2
url3
That means in the file I have 3 sessions with burst of length 1
The Httperf command I ran is
httperf --server=localhost --...
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Httperf: How to test REST api with endoded uri
I want to test my REST API which has a URI something like this:
/myrestAPI/search?startTime=0&endTime=10&count=8&filters={"params":
[{"field":"Topic","value":"Algorithms","type":"...
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Rails load testing with httperf
I'm trying to load test my Rails (3.2.13) application with httperf. It worked very well for the pages which don't require cookies. But, I couldn't make it working for the pages which require cookies. ...
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Trouble with Autobench and setting httperf_add-header
I want to load test my application and need a Cookie for it.
I've looked all of the other questions and have tried this:
In autobench.conf
httperf_add-header = "Cookie: cookie_name=cookie_string\n"
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Changing the file descriptor size in httperf
I'm doing a series of benchmarks and found the httpperf tool.
But the version in my ubuntu 12.04 has a too small file descriptor size. Because it warns me with this message:
httperf: warning: ...
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Is there a way to save logs of the requests in httperf
I'm testing with httperf and i'm trying to monitor the single response time on requests. The result that is given at the end of the test doesn't work for me and it's too approximate. I was thinking ...
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How to send an http session cookie using autobench
How do you set a session cookie in autobench so you can benchmark URLs that require session authentication?
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httperf command options
I need to perform 3 types of performance tests for apache.
500 requests/sec for 60 seconds duration
1000 requests/sec for 60 seconds duration
1500 requests/sec for 60 seconds duration
I went through ...
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httperf gives warning open file descriptor on ubuntu 12.04 but not in Ubuntu 10.04
I have been running load tests using httperf for a few weeks and getting this error -
httperf: warning: open file limit > FD_SETSIZE; limiting max. # of open files to FD_SETSIZE
when I fire query ...
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httperf to test an json rest api
I have a file with this content:
helper?token=99999 method=POST contents='{"key1":99999, "key2":88888, "key3":55}'
and then I run this command:
httperf --print-reply --print-request --hog --client=0/...
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httperf buffer overflow detected when rate is high
I'm running httperf 0.9.0 (downloaded from Google Code) on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64-bit with 2CPU and 4GB RAM. I'm trying to benchmark web servers but encountered the following buffer overflow problem.
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sending a POST xml request using httperf at a given rate
i want to send a httperf request to post a list of uri,xml pair at a given rate using httperf.
I tried various optios
eg using --wsesslog option but i am not able to produce the desired output.
can ...
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Difference in Autobench between num_conn and low_rate / high_rate?
I'm running a load test using Autobench and httperf, and am having trouble understanding the example they give on their site. The example uses the flags
--low_rate 20 --high_rate 40 --rate_step 5 --...
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Autobench how to define a decreasing profil load
I'm currently using autobench to test a personal web server.
I want to define a scenario with 3 main steps:
Step 1: generate an increasing request load. For example from low_rate=10 to high_rate=100 ...
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How do I Benchmark RESTful Service with Variable Parameters?
I'm currently working on benchmarking a RESTful service I've made, and part of that is making sure it runs in a reasonable amount of times for a large array of parameters. For example, let's say I ...
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Stuck at 100 requests uWSGI
httperf ... --rate=20 --send-buffer=4096 --recv-buffer=16384 --num-conns=100 --num-calls=10
Gives 1000 requests as expected on nginx.
Total: connections 100 requests 1000 replies 1000 test-duration 5....
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Load Testing for Amazon server EC2 with httperf
I am using Amazon EC2 services for my web services. I would like to know the maximum number of users that can simultaneously use my web services.
For this, I performed load testing using httperf from ...
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autobench on HTTPS endpoint
How do I set in autobench that I'm testing an HTTPS (port 443) URL?
When I call it with:
autobench --single_host --host1 host.com --port1 443 --uri1 /hello --num_conn 1000 --timeout 5 --low_rate 10 -...
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httperf segmentation fault error on OS X 10.7.1
When I try to perform a load test using httperf with high request rate, I get the following error:
» httperf --client=0/1 --server=www.xxxxx.com --port=80 --uri=/ --send-buffer=4096 --recv-buffer=...
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100% connreset with httperf?
I'm wondering what the importance of the connreset with httperf is. When testing a single webpage, I receive no errors. When using a simple .log file with several pages, I am getting 100% connreset ...
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Benchmarking tool [closed]
I'm unable to decide which is a better benchmarking tool-Is it apachebench tool or httperf?
Please help me to decide which one would be the most appropriate tool to be chosen for benchmarking the web ...
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What does this error mean? - httperf: connection failed with unexpected error 105
Does anyone know what this httperf error means? Is this having a negative effect on my tests?
httperf: connection failed with unexpected error 105
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paste.httpserver and slowdown with HTTP/1.1 Keep-alive; tested with httperf and ab
I have a web server based on paste.httpserver as an adapater between HTTP and WSGI. When I do performance measurements with httperf, I can do over 1,000 requests per second if I start a new request ...
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Trouble deciphering Autobench output
I'm trying to benchmark a simple webserver I wrote, but I'm having trouble deciphering what Autobench has outputted. I've been googling all over for help on this (even going through the autobench and ...
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