Apache Benchmarking

[Jason Crowe]

I am running ab (apache benchmark) on our company website. The problem 
is with the failed request. It is showing 84 failed request out of 100. 
I don't know where to go from here. It has been this way for almost a 
year & I haven't had a single complaint yet. I am not even sure that I 
should worry about it.

I have included the output of the ab command.

Thanks,
Jason
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# ab -c 2 -n 100 http://www.midwestglove.com/sitemap.php
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.65 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, 
http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking www.midwestglove.com (be patient).....done
Server Software:        Apache/1.3.26
Server Hostname:        www.midwestglove.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /sitemap.php
Document Length:        18358 bytes

Concurrency Level:      2
Time taken for tests:   32.970 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        84
   (Connect: 0, Length: 84, Exceptions: 0)
Broken pipe errors:     0
Total transferred:      1866036 bytes
HTML transferred:       1846644 bytes
Requests per second:    3.03 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       659.40 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       329.70 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          56.60 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0     3   31.7      0   318
Processing:   317   653  172.2    639  1367
Waiting:      241   646  178.1    638  1366
Total:        317   657  174.8    644  1367

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    644
  66%    708
  75%    741
  80%    745
  90%    953
  95%    982
  98%    998
  99%   1089
 100%   1367 (last request)