bingli-borland/httpress

High performance HTTP server stress & benchmark utility

C

httpress

High performance HTTP server stress & benchmark utility.

Inspired by weighttp tool.

Main features:

event driven (low memory footprint, large number of connections)
multi-threaded (uses all cores of your CPU)
SSL support (via GNUTLS library) with cipher suite selection

Compared to weighttp, httpress offers the following improvements:

evenly distributes load between threads; does not allow one thread to finish much earlier than others
promptly timeouts stucked connections, forces all hanging connections to close after the main run, does not allow hanging or interrupted connections to affect the measurement
SSL support

Usage

httpress <options> <url>
-n num   number of requests     (default: 1)
-t num   number of threads      (default: 1)
-c num   concurrent connections (default: 1)
-k       keep alive             (default: no)
-z pri   GNUTLS cipher priority (default: NORMAL)
-h       show this help

example: httpress -n 10000 -c 100 -t 4 -k http://localhost:8080/index.html

Dependencies

Depends on libev library
Depends on GnuTLS library (if compiled with SSL support)

Building from source

Prerequisite: libev 4 library (your distro might have it in repo; otherwise build from source)
SSL prerequisite: GnuTLS 3.0 library (better build from source)
Download httpress source
Run make or make -f Makefile.nossl
Collect executable from bin subdirectory

Author

httpress is written by Yaroslav Stavnichiy.

Home page: https://github.com/yarosla/httpress

Report issues

https://github.com/yarosla/httpress/issues