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h2load - HTTP/2 benchmarking tool - HOW-TO
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h2load is benchmarking tool for HTTP/2. If built with
spdylay (http://tatsuhiro-t.github.io/spdylay/) library, it also
supports SPDY protocol. It supports SSL/TLS and clear text for both
HTTP/2 and SPDY.
Basic Usage
-----------
In order to set benchmark settings, specify following 3 options.
``-n``
The number of total requests. Default: 1
``-c``
The number of concurrent clients. Default: 1
``-m``
The max concurrent streams to issue per client.
If ``auto`` is given, the number of given URIs is used.
Default: ``auto``
Here is a command-line to perform benchmark to URI \https://localhost
using total 100000 requests, 100 concurrent clients and 10 max
concurrent streams::
$ h2load -n100000 -c100 -m10 https://localhost
The benchmarking result looks like this::
finished in 0 sec, 385 millisec and 851 microsec, 2591 req/s, 1689 kbytes/s
requests: 1000 total, 1000 started, 1000 done, 1000 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 errored
status codes: 1000 2xx, 0 3xx, 0 4xx, 0 5xx
traffic: 667500 bytes total, 28700 bytes headers, 612000 bytes data
The number of ``failed`` is the number of requests returned with non
2xx status. The number of ``error`` is the number of ``failed`` plus
the number of requests which failed with connection error.
The number of ``total`` in ``traffic`` is the received application
data. If SSL/TLS is used, this number is calculated after decryption.
The number of ``headers`` is the sum of payload size of response
HEADERS (or SYN_REPLY for SPDY). This number comes before
decompressing header block. The number of ``data`` is the sum of
response body.
Flow Control
------------
HTTP/2 and SPDY/3 or later employ flow control and it may affect
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benchmarking results. By default, h2load uses large enough flow
control window, which effectively disables flow control. To adjust
receiver flow control window size, there are following options:
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``-w``
Sets the stream level initial window size to
(2**<N>)-1. For SPDY, 2**<N> is used instead.
``-W``
Sets the connection level initial window size to
(2**<N>)-1. For SPDY, if <N> is strictly less
than 16, this option is ignored. Otherwise
2**<N> is used for SPDY.
Multi-Threading
---------------
Sometimes benchmarking client itself becomes a bottleneck. To remedy
this situation, use ``-t`` option to specify the number of native
thread to use.
``-t``
The number of native threads. Default: 1
Selecting protocol for clear text
---------------------------------
By default, if \http:// URI is given, HTTP/2 protocol is used. To
change the protocol to use for clear text, use ``-p`` option.
Multiple URIs
-------------
If multiple URIs are specified, they are used in round robin manner.
.. note::
Please note that h2load uses sheme, host and port in the first URI
and ignores those parts in the rest of the URIs.