Simple load testing of the Apache2 webserver with ab2

It is very easy to create some load for an Apache2 webserver and check its performance. For a first simple check there is no need to install and configure additional software. Just use the program ab2 which comes with the Apache2 package.

This example executes 300 requests all together. 10 are run in parallel.

ab2 -c 10 -n 300 http://domainxyz/

With webserver authentication

ab2 -A user:password -c 10 -n 300 http://domainxyz/