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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: ab2 (apache benchmark) problem
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:07:43PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Every now and then people are complaining about the bug in ab2 that makes 
> it unusable for benchmarking from FreeBSD (as a client). "ab2" is a HTTP 
> benchmark that's bundled with the Apache web server. I found the apparent 
> solution and I'd like to invite everyone who's interested to register on 
> Apache's bugzilla and vote for the bug to show their interest 
> (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44584).

Well that's just peachy.  For years I'd been trying to figure out why ab
would work fine with a very small number of requests, but would block
indefinitely when performing large sums of them.  I'll be sure to vote
that up.

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