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How to quickly stress test a web server

Rumi, November 13, 2017

The Curl syntax allows you to specify sequences and sets of URL’s. Say for example we’re going to run a load stress test against Google we can run…

curl -s "http://google.com?[1-1000]"

This will make 1000 calls to google i.e.

http://google.com?1 
http://google.com?2 
http://google.com?3 
\... 
http://google.com?1000

So say you want to stress test your web application and it won’t complain if it’s fed an extra parameter, 10,000 calls could be done something like.

curl -s "http://yourappp.com/your_page_to_test.php?[1-10000]"

Multiple Pages, easy just add each page to the command line.

curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page1.php?[1-1000]" "http://yourappp.com/page2.php?[1-1000]"

Or even…

curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]"

Timing
Using the time command we can get a view on our performance

time curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]"
real 0m0.606s 
user 0m0.009s 
sys 0m0.008s

Simulating consecutive users
OK, this is great for sending a whole bunch of calls one after the other but what about simultaneous calls. For this we can place the Curl calls in a script and set them running in the background. i.e. my_stress_test.sh

curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]" &
pidlist="$pidlist $!" 
curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]" &
pidlist="$pidlist $!" 
curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]" &
pidlist="$pidlist $!" 
curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]" &
pidlist="$pidlist $!" 
curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]" &
pidlist="$pidlist $!" 
curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]" &
pidlist="$pidlist $!" 
curl -s "http://yourapp.com/page{1, 2}.php?[1-1000]" &
pidlist="$pidlist $!"

for job in $pidlist do 
 echo $job 
 wait $job || let "FAIL+=1" 
done

if [ "$FAIL" == "0" ]; then 
 echo "YAY!" 
else 
 echo "FAIL! ($FAIL)" 
fi

Then run time my_stress_test.sh

Caveats
This does not simulate user behaviour exactly as the browser is not only downloading the page but all attached images, javascripts, stylesheet etc. You could simulate this too by adding the URL’s to the url command.

Src: http://servermonitoringhq.com/blog/how_to_quickly_stress_test_a_web_server

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Myself…

Hi, I am Hasan T. Emdad Rumi, an IT Project Manager & Consultant, Virtualization & Cloud Savvyfrom Dhaka, Bangladesh. I have prior experience in managing numerous local and international projects in the area of Telco VAS & NMC, National Data Center & PKI Naitonal Root and CA Infrastructure. Also engaged with several Offshore Software Development Team.

Worked with Orascom Telecom-Banglalink, Network Elites as VAS partner, BTRC, BTT (Turkey) , Mango Teleservices Limited and Access to Informaiton (A2I-UNDP)

Currently working at Oracle Corporation as Principal Technology Solution and Cloud Architect.

You can reach me [h.t.emdad at gmail.com] and I will be delighted to exchange my views.

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