Are you by any chance running AB on the same machine as the web server.
I've seen this sort of behaviour when things fight with resources.
Also note the historgram/confidence interval it now prints. I Suspect that
for these values it warned you that the SD was far too big. 1000/100 is
not a large number; that is just a couple of seconds...
Dw
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Jerry Baker wrote:
> Sometimes 2.0.24-dev is faster, and sometimes it is a lot slower using
> localhost to bench it. Here are the results for 5 test conducted with ab
> -n 1000 -c 100 http://localhost/:
>
> Requests per second: 356.63
> Requests per second: 206.78
> Requests per second: 350.39
> Requests per second: 53.57
> Requests per second: 74.69
>
> Is AB not a good benchmark tool, or is the problem with Apache?
>
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