ApacheBench Profiles

The following profile runs benchmarking scenarios using the ApacheBench workload.

• Workload Details

PERF-APACHEBENCH.json

Runs ApacheBench against an Apache HTTP Server on the local system. The profile installs and starts the server, then executes ApacheBench with HTTP keep-alive enabled using the configured request count and concurrency level.

• Workload Profile

• Supported Platform-Architectures

  • linux-x64
  • linux-arm64
  • win-x64

• Dependencies
  The dependencies defined in the 'Dependencies' section of the profile itself are required in order to run the workload operations effectively.

  • Internet connection.
  • On Linux, the apache2 and unzip packages.
  • On Windows, the apache-httpd-2.4.57-v2.zip dependency package.

  Additional information on components that exist within the 'Dependencies' section of the profile can be found in the following location:

  • Installing Dependencies

• Profile Parameters

  Parameter	Purpose	Default Value
  RequestCount	Total number of requests sent during each iteration.	50000
  ConcurrentRequestCount	Number of requests issued concurrently.	50

• Profile Runtimes
  See the 'Metadata' section of the profile for estimated runtimes. These timings represent the length of time required to run a single round of profile actions.

• Usage Examples

  # Execute the workload profile
  ./VirtualClient --profile=PERF-APACHEBENCH.json --system=Demo --timeout=60
  
  # Execute with a custom request count and concurrency level
  ./VirtualClient --profile=PERF-APACHEBENCH.json --system=Demo --timeout=60 --parameters="RequestCount=100000,,,ConcurrentRequestCount=100"