Can you provide instuctions on how to install ab on a fedora distro with or without installing the apache web server? With yum or compiling from source.
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Install apr-util(need to run ab):
yum install apr-util Install yum-utils:
yum install yum-utils Download httpd an extract ab:
mkdir ~/httpd cd ~/httpd yumdownloader httpd rpm2cpio httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv mv usr/bin/ab /usr/bin/ab cd ~ rm -rf ~/httpd Run ab:
ab http://google.ru/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0 
On my CentOS 6.2, this worked:
sudo yum install httpd-tools 
This should help you. It depends upon on Apache Portable Runtime library and APR-util library
http://code.google.com/p/apachebench-standalone/wiki/HowToBuild
- I actually tried that before I posted the answer, but hasn't been updated and it's not compatible with late versions of APR - No matter what, I couldn't get it to compile.arnorhs– arnorhs2011-02-28 11:08:11 +00:00Commented Feb 28, 2011 at 11:08
For those who came here looking for Apache Benchmark (ab) binary, you should know that ab can be slow sometimes (testing nginx for example). Also, it requires apr-util to be installed (with sudo), and there is no standalone binary to download.
Instead, I'd recommend an alternative - wrk - it is faster and requires no dependencies:
(Or the GO variant: https://github.com/tsliwowicz/go-wrk )
