ab is erroring out with apr_socket_recv: Connection refused (61)

Question

I am testing eventlet out, and I am getting this error:

~>ab -n 10 -c 1 http://localhost:8090/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>         


        

Answer 1

New version's apache have fix the issue. Only have to rebuild ab.

Try to download latest package from http://archive.apache.org/dist/

Have to patch apache and build a new ab.

$ wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.3.16-beta.tar.bz2
$ tar jxvf httpd-2.3.16-beta.tar.bz2 
$ cd httpd-2.3.16-beta
$ ./configure

Only have to build ab, which located in support folder.

$ cd support
$ make
...
$ ./ab -n 10 -c 1 http://localhost:8090/

If your apache is very old, then patch it and build as above.

$ wget https://www.rtfm.ro/download/patches/ab.patch --no-check-certificate
$ patch -p0 < ./ab.patch

Done.