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Modern HTTP benchmarking tool

42 mentions on Hacker News by 34 people: 5 stories, 37 comments · first 2012-04-03 · latest 2024-09-15

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  1. …) and my gut reaction is this one looks like a Golang alternative to Wrk ( https://github.com/wg/wrk ) in that its main feature is speed. I'd bet Wrk still blows it out of the water though - in my testing, no other tool got anywhere
    comment by rlonn · 2024-09-15 · in Bombardier: Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go
  2. …stood out as a red flag; there is notable problem with wrk called "coordinated omission": https://github.com/wg/wrk/issues/485 https://github.com/giltene/wrk2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148502 Benchmarking is difficult. And…
    comment by zokier · 2024-05-16 · in Swift sucks at web serving or does it?
  3. …with unique parameters. To the best of my knowledge, no tool could do this. wrk does this with lua. https://github.com/wg/wrk/blob/master/src/wrk.lua Also even things like the venerable jmeter supported pulling parameters from a csv file.
    comment by anonacct37 · 2024-01-26 · in Ruby on Rails load testing habits
  4. …There is also open issue on GH questioning wrks approach for resolving coordinated omission: https://github.com/wg/wrk/issues/485 This is a deep, ultimately unsatisfying, rabbit hole to fall into
    comment by zokier · 2023-05-02 · in Grasshopper – An open-source Python library for load testing
  5. We use locust at work but I HIGHLY recommend wrk for a very robust yet simple load testing tool. https://github.com/wg/wrk And of course, this talk by Gil Tene is fantastic if you're interested in load testing stats…
    comment by leetrout · 2023-05-02 · in Grasshopper – An open-source Python library for load testing
  6. There are http benchmarking tools like wrk [0]. You don't need a ddos service for that. [0] https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by bauruine · 2022-12-15 · in Six charged in mass takedown of DDoS-for-hire sites
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    Ask HN: What's the simplest way to run load tests?
    story by gmassman · 2022-05-25 · 1 comment
  8. …of apples to apples comparison to run it on the same setup you ran ab on. You can grab wrk here: https://github.com/wg/wrk Enjoy!
    comment by voidlogic · 2021-12-28 · in Container-to-Container Communication
  9. …month, roughly $80 vs $40. [0]: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-xogyq23b3mfge [1]: https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by nderjung · 2021-12-15 · in The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
  10. …redbean has about 600k req/s, when I tested: https://redbean.dev/ I tested like this: git clone https://github.com/wg/wrk.git cd wrk make ./wrk -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' -t 12 -c 120 http://127.0.0.1:8080/ When I tested…
    comment by xet7 · 2021-10-19 · in Nim 1.6
  11. …I don't think coordinated omission is a major concern for *this specific workload/environment* 1. https://github.com/wg/wrk/blob/a211dd5a7050b1f9e8a9870b95513...
    comment by talawahtech · 2021-05-21 · in Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
  12. …there is one tool that runs circles around all others (including k6), and that is wrk - https://github.com/wg/wrk - very cool piece of software although it is lacking in terms of functionality so mostly suitable for simpler load testing…
    comment by rlonn · 2020-11-28 · in K6: Like unit testing, for performance
  13. Ab support only http 1.0 requests, I recommend wrk instead: https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by js4ever · 2020-10-05 · in Nakabonne/ali: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
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    Wrk – A HTTP Benchmarking Tool
    story by type0 · 2020-03-15 · 0 comments
  15. …the response time by logging and improving sqlalchemy query logs. [1] https://locust.io/ [2] https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by dragonsh · 2019-09-05 · in Load Testing with Python: Locust Testing and Bokeh Visualization
  16. …there was a thread on HN previously which tools are used for HTTP perf testing: >>> - Wrk: https://github.com/wg/wrk - Fastest tool in the universe. About 25x faster than Locust. 3x faster than Jmeter. Scriptable in Lua. Drawbacks are…
    comment by StreamBright · 2019-01-06 · in Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
  17. …json library https://github.com/nlohmann/json wrk, post with json payload via lua post script https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by drenvuk · 2018-09-08 · in GRPC and JSON
  18. …headers and oauth2) * It supports scripting fuzzing (random values) for URLs and POST requests [1]: https://github.com/wg/wrk For wide-area load testing, I simply buy some advertising since that gives me cheap access to millions of…
    comment by geocar · 2018-03-04 · in Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?
  19. …is the slowest tool I have seen and introduces the most measurement error of any tool also. - Wrk: https://github.com/wg/wrk - Fastest tool in the universe. About 25x faster than Locust. 3x faster than Jmeter. Scriptable in Lua. Drawbacks…
    comment by rlonn · 2017-11-20 · in Ask HN: Which load testing tool do you use? Any recommendations?
  20. …wrk is the only thing I've found which can push your server hard. Highly recommended. Link: https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by jdcarter · 2016-08-12 · in Two tools for quick and easy web application load testing during development
  21. …is another C web server that seam quite efficient when tested with the benchmarking tool wrk [ https://github.com/wg/wrk ]. Result are bad with the benchmark tool Siege for kore because of its particular request pattern. You might find…
    comment by chmike · 2016-05-23 · in Balde: a microframework to develop web applications in C
  22. …is quite nice. My local macbook was able to completely saturate the service with ~20k req/sec. 1. https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by bkeroack · 2016-04-05 · in HTTP/2 load testing with Vegeta
  23. wrk[1] does appear to reuse a connection for each request. [1] https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by Zr40 · 2016-01-31 · in Optimizing HTTPS performance
  24. If you're using ab or httpperf, you should also take a look at wrk ( https://github.com/wg/wrk ). It can generate significant amount of load and has support for Lua scripting for request generation, response processing and reporting. There…
    comment by zodvik · 2015-07-01 · in Locust – A modern load testing framework
  25. …It's pretty simple to use and can generate thousands of connections with multiple threads. [1]: https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by squiguy7 · 2015-04-29 · in How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests (2012)
  26. …Wrk can generate significantly more since it uses all CPU cores of the load-generation machine. [1] https://github.com/wg/wrk/issues/49
    comment by bhauer · 2015-04-29 · in How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests (2012)
  27. …100+ frameworks - that's the cornerstone of what is happening here. Granted, we currently use https://github.com/wg/wrk instead of ab , but the principle is the same - start up framework, run load generation, capture result data. Most of…
    comment by hamiltont · 2015-04-21 · in Techempower Web Framework Benchmarks Round 10
  28. …[1]: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html [2]: https://github.com/tarekziade/boom [3]: https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by pkhamre · 2014-01-22 · in Ask HN: VPS multiple request
  29. …clone named WeigHTTP [2]. With high-performance servers, ApacheBench is a limiting factor. [1] https://github.com/wg/wrk [2] https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp
    comment by bhauer · 2013-12-15 · in Benchmarking Nginx with Go
  30. …basically a multi-threaded replacement for ab. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6211883 [2] https://github.com/wg/wrk [3] https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp
    comment by bhauer · 2013-10-09 · in Load Test Rails4 app ruby 2.1 MRI Vs Rubinius 2.0
  31. Is this the wrk you're referring to: https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by SkyMarshal · 2013-08-14 · in Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers
  32. …past moderate loads due it's multi-threaded design (lack there-of). I'd highly recommend wrk: https://github.com/wg/wrk Much better at 100 reqs/sec and up.
    comment by TylerE · 2013-08-14 · in Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers
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    Wrk - a HTTP benchmarking tool
    story by shawndumas · 2013-07-28 · 0 comments
  34. Don't use it for actual benchmarking though, it has lots of known problems. Use something like: https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by voidlogic · 2013-07-27 · in Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views
  35. Nice write up. I am recommending https://github.com/wg/wrk instead of ab if you ever have to run those kind of benchmarks again.
    comment by fbernier · 2013-07-02 · in Comparing MRI Rails App Server Performance on Heroku
  36. Use Wrk instead. https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by bhauer · 2013-06-28 · in Ab: Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
  37. Ok, I've raise an enhancement for wrk https://github.com/wg/wrk/issues/31 Perhaps you could upvote or something? Thanks for all the great work in these benchmarks. A useful resource.
    comment by diroussel · 2013-05-03 · in Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4
  38. …written in C, does not suffer even the tiny garbage collection pauses of the Java frameworks. [1] https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by bhauer · 2013-05-02 · in Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4
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    Wrk – an HTTP benchmarking tool
    story by jnazario · 2013-02-15 · 0 comments
  40. use wrk[1] or weighttp[2] instead. [1]: https://github.com/wg/wrk [2]: redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki
    comment by stock_toaster · 2013-02-14 · in Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
  41. …The machine is a Macbook from whatever year that is. Here's wrk, for anyone looking for it: https://github.com/wg/wrk
    comment by kristianp · 2012-09-19 · in Comparing Go and Java, Part 2 – Performance
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    Wrk - a modern HTTP benchmarking tool
    story by arete · 2012-04-03 · 0 comments