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

1. Prerequisite: libev 4 library (your distro might have it in repo; otherwise build from source)
2. SSL prerequisite: GnuTLS 3.0 library (better build from source)
3. Download httpress source
4. Run make or make -f Makefile.nossl
5. 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