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Measure tomcat Performance with ab

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 17, 2011

[ Thanks to Andrew
Weber
for this link. ]

“The Apache Bench will probably be installed by default on the
Ubuntu server. What this tool does is to allow you to select one
URL and test against that single URL. In the test that you see
below ab was told to retrieve the web URL 100,000 times with a
concurrency maximum of 149, since the max is 150 by default with
tomcat.”


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