What does Apache Bench consider a failure? - apache

I have been using Apache Bench in work to benchmark a number of servers. After testing one of them I got this result:
Concurrency Level: 10
Time taken for tests: 13.564 seconds
Complete requests: 500
Failed requests: 497
(Connect: 0, Length: 497, Exceptions: 0)
There is no sign of an error in the server's log file. This makes me believe that it is Apache Bench that is treating successful requests as fails. With that in mind, can anyone explain to me what does Apache Bench considers a failed request?

Apache Bench marks a response as a failure if the actual response length doesn't match the byte count stated in the response header.
Possible duplicate of: investigating apache benchmark failed request

Apache bench seems to consider it a failed transaction even if the byte count of the body and the Content-Length header match, IF the same URI returns a variable length body on each request.

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JMeter SocketException when uploading 1GB file

JMeter 5.4.1
OpenJDK 15.0.1
My test server is configured by default to allow a max 1073741824 byte file to be uploaded, a limit that is configurable. My goal is to validate that the configured limit is respected.
When I configure it for 1048576 bytes and exceed that limit with my upload, the server sends the response:
"{"type":"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.1","title":"One or more validation errors occurred.","status":400,"traceId":"|bd37f36b-4cd68e1b8b433669.","errors":{"":["Failed to read the request form. Multipart body length limit 1048576 exceeded."]}}"
When I configure it for 1073741824 bytes and exceed that limit with my upload, JMeter reports the following error:
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.implWrite(NioSocketImpl.java:420)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.write(NioSocketImpl.java:440)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl$2.write(NioSocketImpl.java:826)
at java.base/java.net.Socket$SocketOutputStream.write(Socket.java:1051)
at java.base/sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketOutputRecord.deliver(SSLSocketOutputRecord.java:342)
at java.base/sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl$AppOutputStream.write(SSLSocketImpl.java:1277)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.SessionOutputBufferImpl.streamWrite(SessionOutputBufferImpl.java:124)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.SessionOutputBufferImpl.flushBuffer(SessionOutputBufferImpl.java:136)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.SessionOutputBufferImpl.write(SessionOutputBufferImpl.java:167)
at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthOutputStream.write(ContentLengthOutputStream.java:113)
at org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.FileBody.writeTo(FileBody.java:121)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl$ViewableFileBody.writeTo(HTTPHC4Impl.java:1513)
at org.apache.http.entity.mime.AbstractMultipartForm.doWriteTo(AbstractMultipartForm.java:134)
at org.apache.http.entity.mime.AbstractMultipartForm.writeTo(AbstractMultipartForm.java:157)
at org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartFormEntity.writeTo(MultipartFormEntity.java:113)
at org.apache.http.impl.DefaultBHttpClientConnection.sendRequestEntity(DefaultBHttpClientConnection.java:156)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.CPoolProxy.sendRequestEntity(CPoolProxy.java:152)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doSendRequest(HttpRequestExecutor.java:238)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl$2.doSendRequest(HTTPHC4Impl.java:458)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:123)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:272)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:186)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:83)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl.executeRequest(HTTPHC4Impl.java:935)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl.sample(HTTPHC4Impl.java:646)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerProxy.sample(HTTPSamplerProxy.java:66)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1296)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1285)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.doSampling(JMeterThread.java:638)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.executeSamplePackage(JMeterThread.java:558)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.processSampler(JMeterThread.java:489)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:256)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:832)
My JMeter.bat file has the heap set as follows:
set HEAP=-Xms1g -Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m
This looks to be similar to a post from last Oct, but there was no solution suggested/reported.
SocketException after sending huge request via JMeter
Connection reset by peer means that your server has reset the connection so you should rather look for the clue in your server logs.
The only thing I suggest to do on JMeter side is to consider switching to HTTP Raw Request sampler, it has nice feature of streaming the file directly to the server without loading it to memory first, I think you will find it extremely helpful when it comes to load testing with more than one virtual user. See HTTP Raw Request for SOAP + MTOM post on JMeter Plugins support forum for more details.

Broken pipe (Write failed) when testing > max allowed Content-Length [duplicate]

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I am trying to write a test which validates my server rejects requests larger than 1MB:
Scenario: large requests are rejected
Given url 'https://my.server.com/anything'
And request "x".repeat(1048577)
When method post
Then status 413
This test fails with an javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Broken pipe (Write failed) exception because the server reads the Content-Length header and immediately rejects the request / responds with a 413 before reading the payload.
I verified the server behavior via cURL:
$> printf 'x%.0s' {1..1048577} | curl -i --data #- https://my.server.com/anything
HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large
Is it possible to test this feature using Karate?
It certainly can be a case which Karate is not designed for. You may not have full control over some "special" headers like the Content-Length - and we are limited by the underlying Apache HTTP client.
I'm not sure if the upcoming 1.0 series will support this and allow you to over-write the Content-Length header: https://github.com/intuit/karate/wiki/1.0-upgrade-guide
But you are welcome to investigate and submit a PR if needed.
As a workaround, you can use cURL from Karate: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64352676/143475
And also see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/73230200/143475

Gwan report.c statistics

I am testing on G-wan server performance and it's very amazing!!! Here is the output from report.c
Requests
All: 5,725 (6.06% of Cache misses)
HTTP: 66 (1.15% of all requests)
Errors: 70 (1.22% of all requests)
CSP: 5,650 (98.69% of all requests) Exceptions: 1
Connections
Accepted: 4,717 (1.21 requests per connection)
Closed: 4,372
Timeouts: 682 (14.46%) Accept:682 Read:0 Slow:0 Build:0 Send:0 Close:0
Busy: 345 (Waiting: 334 Reading: 9 Replying: 2 Sending: 0 Pushing: 0 Relaying: 0 Closing: 0)
I found that the Errors rate seem to be quite high, and there an exceptions occur on CSP too, could anyone tell me what did "Errors" mean and how to avoid it? Thanks!
the "Errors" rate seem to be quite high
That's HTTP errors (wrong requests coming from a client, not found resources, etc. - look at the error.log file for a trace).
The only way to avoid HTTP errors is to prevent clients from connecting to the server.
If you can't live with this "high rate of HTTP errors" of 1.22% of all requests then use a G-WAN connection handler (with the HTTP_ERROR notification) to make G-WAN ignore HTTP errors and close the connection without sending an HTTP error message (just return 0; in the handler) - but that's probably not what most users want.
there an exceptions occur on CSP too
An exception means a 'graceful crash report' was issued for a servlet bug. As you have only 1 crash on 5,650 dynamic requests, that was probably during the servlet development. Look at your error.log and trace files to check what happened.
Note that the "cache misses" statistics are for static contents only (1.15% of all your HTTP requests).
Apparently, not all your clients are responding in the timely fashion: you have timeouts and pending requests.

Apache, mod_ssl "request failed: error reading the headers" for a specific user

Currently we have an Apache 2.2.3 server with mod_ssl 2.2.3 running Django, with users authenticating by using a x509 certificate.
So far the system is running perfectly except for a single user, who when trying to upload a file receives 400 Bad Request error, and the contents of the ssl_error_log regarding this operation are:
[<date>] [error] [client <client ip>] request failed: error reading the headers, referer: <referrer url>
The contents of the ssl_access_log are:
<client ip> - - [<date>] "POST <target page> HTTP/1.1" 400 321
Also, the user's browser is Firefox as far as I know.
I am completely unable to reproduce this bug and so far none of the other users have experienced it. Could you point out some reasons for this to happen?
I've experienced connectivity that stops the upstream after an X amount of bytes is sent. X was a pretty low value, as in enough to request some simple pages, but not to deal with ajax requests much less upload files. As far as I recall, this connectivity problem occurred only when tethering (from a specific Android phone, but I didnt even test other phones).
So if the upstream gets interrupted and the upload stalls, it makes sense apache would return this error, according to this post: "Apache waits a time equal to the Timeout directive (defaults to 5 minutes if not defined) for a response from the client. It is likely Apache is waiting for the CRLF that indicates the end of the headers, yet it is never received.."

Send request to google's geocoding API from the terminal

I'm trying to geocode a lot of data. I have a lot of machines across which to spread the load (so that I won't go over the 2,500 requests per IP address per day). I am using a script to make the requests with either wget or cURL. However, both wget and cURL yield the same "request denied" message. That being said, when I make the request from my browser, it works perfectly. An example request is:
wget http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=true
And the resulting output is:
[1] 93930
05:00 PM ~: --2011-12-19 17:00:25-- http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA
Resolving maps.googleapis.com... 72.14.204.95
Connecting to maps.googleapis.com|72.14.204.95|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/json]
Saving to: `json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA'
[ <=> ] 54 --.-K/s in 0s
2011-12-19 17:00:25 (1.32 MB/s) - `json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA' saved [54]
The file it wrote to only contains:
{
"results" : [],
"status" : "REQUEST_DENIED"
}
Any help is much appreciated.
The '&' character that separates the address and sensor parameters isn't getting passed along to the wget command, but instead is telling your shell to run wget in the background. The resulting query is missing the required 'sensor' parameter, which should be set to true or false based on your input.
wget "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=false"