HTTPS Load Test

Server NGINX
1

Hi Folks,
I am trying to get some performance numbers on nginx by sending HTTP
and HTTPS requests. My aim is to check the ratio of CPU usage,
connections/sec across HTTP and HTTPS requests.

In the process, I need to verify certain certificates/keys needed for
SSL . Are there any tools which can help in generating the load in the
following conditions:

  1. Keepalive/Persistent HTTP client support.
  2. Options to verify the certificates/keys/CA chain certs.

Thanks,
Jagannath

2

You can try “siege”.
In the past I have take the access log to create a list of urls to be
used by siege.

Regards,
Basti

3

Bombard is a useful wrapper round siege.

I’ve had trouble using siege with more than a couple of thousand
connections - crashes with buffer overflow. I’ve not tried to debug
this
yet but would be interested in other people’s experiences.

4

Thanks Edward.

What is the expected ratio of CPU Usage when HTTPS is enabled at Nginx ?
How is the ratio affected when we enable persistent HTTP
Support?

Folks from nginx or who have already bench marked may help here and can
point me to useful links on web.

From: Edward Hibbert
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Date: Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 4:00 PM
To: “[email protected]mailto:[email protected]”
<[email protected]mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: HTTPS Load Test

Bombard is a useful wrapper round siege.

I’ve had trouble using siege with more than a couple of thousand
connections - crashes with buffer overflow. I’ve not tried to debug
this yet but would be interested in other people’s experiences.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:16 AM, basti
<[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
You can try “siege”.
In the past I have take the access log to create a list of urls to be
used by siege.

Regards,
Basti