How can I use ab to test the performance of my Apache Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?

The tool ab is automatically installed with the httpd package is installed. Begin by turning the system's firewall off and starting the httpd service.

Issue a command similar to the following:

# ab -c 100 -n 10000 http://yourserverip/index.html

Explanations of options:

-c concurrency
Number of multiple ...