HttPerf

First, compile httperf for your platform. It works just fine under 32 or 64 bit. Use file to verify the binary matches your platform. <geshi lang="bash"> $ file /home/ec2/bin/httperf /home/ec2/bin/httperf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped $ file /usr/local/bin/httperf /usr/local/bin/httperf: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped </geshi>

You'll want ssl compiled in. You can either check to see if the '--ssl' option is available in help, or better yet, check to see if the executable links to the ssl libaries. In Ubuntu I had to make sure I had 'libc6', 'libssl0.9.8', and 'libssl-dev' installed before compiling.

<geshi lang="bash"> $ ldd /usr/local/bin/httperf libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00002b3181afe000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x00002b3181d13000) libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x00002b3181f2c000) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x00002b3182175000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00002b31824f7000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002b3182778000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b3182ad3000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00002b3182cd8000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b31818e0000) </geshi>

I ran a quick test against Amazon to get an idea of the capacity of my client machine. Looks like I can sustain about 45 conn/s and 455 req/s. <geshi lang="bash"> $ httperf --timeout=5 --client=0/1 --server=www.amazon.com --port=443 --uri=/favicon.ico --rate=60 --send-buffer=4096 \ --recv-buffer=16384 --ssl --num-conns=500 --num-calls=10 httperf --timeout=5 --client=0/1 --server=www.amazon.com --port=443 --uri=/favicon.ico --rate=60 --send-buffer=4096 --recv-buffer=16384 --ssl --num-conns=500 --num-calls=10 Maximum connect burst length: 5

Total: connections 500 requests 5000 replies 5000 test-duration 10.982 s

Connection rate: 45.5 conn/s (22.0 ms/conn, <=94 concurrent connections) Connection time [ms]: min 385.9 avg 1014.7 max 5818.1 median 503.5 stddev 1004.4 Connection time [ms]: connect 220.6 Connection length [replies/conn]: 10.000

Request rate: 455.3 req/s (2.2 ms/req) Request size [B]: 78.0

Reply rate [replies/s]: min 452.6 avg 490.6 max 528.6 stddev 53.7 (2 samples) Reply time [ms]: response 69.1 transfer 10.3 Reply size [B]: header 272.0 content 1406.0 footer 0.0 (total 1678.0) Reply status: 1xx=0 2xx=5000 3xx=0 4xx=0 5xx=0

CPU time [s]: user 1.10 system 6.54 (user 10.0% system 59.6% total 69.6%) Net I/O: 781.1 KB/s (6.4*10^6 bps)

Errors: total 0 client-timo 0 socket-timo 0 connrefused 0 connreset 0 Errors: fd-unavail 0 addrunavail 0 ftab-full 0 other 0 </geshi>