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chantheman
Asked: 2012-01-06 13:33:08 +0800 CST

ApacheBenchmark ab - SSL read failed - closing connection

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When I am running ab on my website I get a ton of these responses:

SSL read failed - closing connection
SSL read failed - closing connection
SSL read failed - closing connection

And some times it is successful. I am on a MacBook Pro 10.7.2. What is weird is, someone else does the same test on a very simular machine, not OS Lion, right next to me and has no problems.

Any ideas? I am sure this is something on my machine because I get ab to work all over the place.

The command is simply: ab -c 100 -n 1000 https://mywebsite.com

One other thing, when I look in the nginx logs, I do see some requests coming in from the ab so it is working some. And also, the logs do not show the failed ones.

apache-2.2 ssl nginx ab

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Looks like you are encountering a bug in ab for which there is a patch.

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  2. Question - what happens if you drop the concurrency? The default ulimit on Lion is quite low - 256 if memory serves me and you may be running into that here. If dropping the concurrency sorts it out, just up your ulimit and try again:

    ulimit -a (to list); ulimit -n 1024 (or whatever number you wish) to increase it.

    Good explanation of it here: https://superuser.com/questions/309106/strange-behaviour-with-ulimit-on-mac-os-x-10-6

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