Which gets the measurements right, JMeter or Apache ab?

Question

I started writing some basic tests in JMeter and was surprised that the measurements are so different from those from Apache ab.

I have a gigabit LAN connecting an Inte

Answer 1

As it already stated in first answer, the keyword "requirements". JMeter is better choice for testing server that serves web pages. For example, it can send a sequence of requests, generating different request for each sequence, parse HTML responses and load content of images and scripts from the HTML. AB is be better choice for REST API testing, where you need that server will response as fast as possible and serve as many request as possible, there is no connection between two subsequent request etc. So, AB is indeed able to generate more requests than JMeter vs same server from same client machine.