This post described a simple demo on how to use apache benchmark test to get performance test result and generate chart with gnuplot.
ⓑ maxwu > ab -v -n40 -c1 "http://jenkins.maxwu.me/" This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1706008 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Server Software: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 Server Hostname: jenkins.maxwu.me Server Port: 80
Document Path: / Document Length: 0 bytes
Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 2.518 seconds Complete requests: 1 Failed requests: 0 Non-2xx responses: 1 Total transferred: 268 bytes HTML transferred: 0 bytes Requests per second: 0.40 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 2518.479 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 2518.479 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 0.10 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 2289 2289 0.0 2289 2289 Processing: 229 229 0.0 229 229 Waiting: 229 229 0.0 229 229 Total: 2518 2518 0.0 2518 2518 ⓑ maxwu >
The detection on Web Server type is incorrect. The data could be dumpped in gnuplot data format with -g filename.
gnuplot> set output "http_benchmark.png" gnuplot> set xlabel "request" gnuplot> set ylabel "ms" gnuplot>plot "plot.dat" using 7 with lines title "ctime", \ "plot.dat" using 8 with lines title "dtime", \ "plot.dat" using 9 with lines title "ttime", \ "plot.dat" using 10 with lines title "wait"
The benchmark test chart is generated as the chart in beginning of this post.