I found using 127.0.0.1 rather than localhost worked: ab -n 10 -c 1 http://127.0.0.1:8090/ Update: May have been a bug in ab: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nodejs/TZU5H7MdoII/yivu0d4LMaAJ
It sounds like you don’t want to install Apache, but you do want Apache Bench. May I recommend XAMPP? Download the zip or 7zip versions (much larger download than regular Apache but you won’t have to install). Unzip the download. This is where what I would recommend, and where you currently are converge. Since you … Read more
Nevermind. The “length failure” merely indicates that about half the time the length of the response was different. Since the contents are dynamic, it’s probably the session identifier or something like that.